How and When?

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: shira
How will American be attacked?
When (approximately) will the attack occur?
How many Americans will die?

Depends if Iran is allowed to continue with its nuclear ambitions. Rumor is the Democrats are working closely with the UN to create a strongly worded document, so I'm sure Iran will cease and desist very soon.

Major coastal city. I'd guess on the Eastern seaboard as that area has multipurpose targets. (Financial, Political, Strategic etc)

Depends on the type of attack, but I'd bet its gonna be a whole hell of a lot.

The other option is a small scale attack for maximum impact for its size, much like the Beslan school incident. Again though that would be met with a strongly worded document, so I for one feel completely safe. I dont think we'll see any attacks anytime soon.

HAHAHHAHA!!! ZOMG!!! I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF AT THAT ONE!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[palehorse]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: shira
How will American be attacked?
When (approximately) will the attack occur?
How many Americans will die?

Depends if Iran is allowed to continue with its nuclear ambitions. Rumor is the Democrats are working closely with the UN to create a strongly worded document, so I'm sure Iran will cease and desist very soon.

Major coastal city. I'd guess on the Eastern seaboard as that area has multipurpose targets. (Financial, Political, Strategic etc)

Depends on the type of attack, but I'd bet its gonna be a whole hell of a lot.

The other option is a small scale attack for maximum impact for its size, much like the Beslan school incident. Again though that would be met with a strongly worded document, so I for one feel completely safe. I dont think we'll see any attacks anytime soon.

HAHAHHAHA!!! ZOMG!!! I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF AT THAT ONE!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

you think that's funny? you should do what i do: I carry a strongly worded document around in my pocket just in case someone tries to mug me or picks a fight with me at a bar... it works every time!!

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: palehorse74

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: Specop 007

Originally posted by: shira
How will American be attacked?
When (approximately) will the attack occur?
How many Americans will die?

Depends if Iran is allowed to continue with its nuclear ambitions. Rumor is the Democrats are working closely with the UN to create a strongly worded document, so I'm sure Iran will cease and desist very soon.

Major coastal city. I'd guess on the Eastern seaboard as that area has multipurpose targets. (Financial, Political, Strategic etc)

Depends on the type of attack, but I'd bet its gonna be a whole hell of a lot.

The other option is a small scale attack for maximum impact for its size, much like the Beslan school incident. Again though that would be met with a strongly worded document, so I for one feel completely safe. I dont think we'll see any attacks anytime soon.

HAHAHHAHA!!! ZOMG!!! I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF AT THAT ONE!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

you think that's funny? you should do what i do: I carry a strongly worded document around in my pocket just in case someone tries to mug me or picks a fight with me at a bar... it works every time!!

So why are you so afraid? Get mugged or in bar fights often? What if the other guy has a more powerful "strongly worded document" and/or gets his pulled out first? Then what? You gonna let the "lawyers" sort things out? (no, I'm NOT anti-gun, just having fun with ya!)

 

[Darthvoy]

my guess would be sometime near the next important election(s) and it will be blamed on the democrats..

 

[shira]

Originally posted by: TravisT
I would say that the war in Iraq is keeping many terrorists from being able to organize a more structured plan. We are continuously knocking off high ranking al Qaeda leaders. Do I think that it is stopping a terrorist attack in the future? No. I think it is merely prolonging the inevitable. The question is, would merely playing a defensive game be enough to stop a terrorist attack at all?

I'm guessing the vast majority of Al Qaeda operatives are NOT in Iraq. They're probably in Afghanistan, Pakistan, all though the Middle East, and in Europe. Based on what Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller (director-general of MI5) said last week (Wash Post article), Al Qaeda has been VERY busy in England:

The spy chief said her agency was currently aware of about 30 plots, which "often have links back to al-Qaeda in Pakistan."

If Iraq isn't slowing down Al Qaeda in England, why should Iraq slow Al Qaeda down in the U.S.?

 

[slash196]

Al Qaeda will never strike inside the US again. They don't need to, and besides, 9/11 was a MONUMENTAL stroke of luck. Everything went wrong for the US at once and allowed them to slip through the cracks. I've believed this since day 1; 9/11 was a fluke.

That said, the question becomes impossible to answer, since it's impossible to know what threats we will face in the future. If I had to bet I'd say the next major terrorist strike in the US will probably be from a domestic terror organization. We are our own worst enemy.

 

[shira]

I'm guessing that in the near term there will be an attack on another prominent U.S. building - probably multiple attacks on several buildings on the same day, with at least several hundred killed.

I fear our reaction to such an attack far more than I fear the attack itself.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: slash196
Al Qaeda will never strike inside the US again.

:laugh:

It's not like 9/11 was the first.

 

[ScottMac]

Originally posted by: dahunan
Don't piss off Cheney

More people have died at the hands of Ted Kennedy than Dick Cheney.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: ScottMac

Originally posted by: dahunan
Don't piss off Cheney

More people have died at the hands of Ted Kennedy than Dick Cheney.

Rofl, but Cheney is toe only one to have actually shot someone...Cheney is just lucky he didn't die...

 

[ScottMac]

Aside from the usual shopping mall scenarios, I believe that one or more dorms at one or more of the leading universities would be easy targets. Multiple targets, no problem ... and you don't even need a suicide.

At the beginning of the school year when all of the students are moving in, just haul a half roomful of boxes o' boom and trigger it early in the morning.

A multi-national student mix is nothing unusual, no one would look twice, regardless of the student bomber's nationality.

It would be a much easier target than a business or governmental building, and would be devestating.

Hopefully, the anti-terror folks have figured this out and have something resembling a plan to counter it.

If anything happens anywhere in the US or its territories, there'll be more than enough blame to go around for everyone, regardless of party affiliation.

 

[sandorski]

Tomorrow, in the library, with a candlestick.

Who knows? It'll happen when it happens and how it happens.

 

[Uhtrinity]

Originally posted by: shira
Some conservative commentators argue that the fact there hasn't been another terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 is proof that George Bush's anti-terrorism policies are working. But most people agree that it's only a matter of time before the U.S. suffers another attack. So here are the questions:

How will American be attacked?
When (approximately) will the attack occur?
How many Americans will die?

When, no idea, but it is inevitable, no idea how big it will be. I'm tired of people saying that GWB has made us safe, and our proof is we haven't been attacked since 911. My counter is, "How much time was there between the first and second WTC attacks?" Btw, I'm just counting Muslim Terrorist attacks on US soil as there are too many attacks on foreign soil and against American and Non-American interests to even keep track of.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: bamacre
There is no doubt the US will be attacked with a nuclear weapon within the next 10 years or so.

Just hope you do not live in whatever city they decide to set it off. Of course, foreseeing what life will be like in the US afterwards, maybe one would be better off in said city anyway.

1. Just a question, but did you get to live through the cold war?

2. If there was a "nuclear weapon" set off, it would most likely be a dirty bomb (unless delivered by missile) and it will kill only in the hundreds (maybe low thousands from long term radiation damage), and make a few city blocks unlivable for the next few centuries.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Fox5

Originally posted by: bamacre
There is no doubt the US will be attacked with a nuclear weapon within the next 10 years or so.

Just hope you do not live in whatever city they decide to set it off. Of course, foreseeing what life will be like in the US afterwards, maybe one would be better off in said city anyway.

1. Just a question, but did you get to live through the cold war?

2. If there was a "nuclear weapon" set off, it would most likely be a dirty bomb (unless delivered by missile) and it will kill only in the hundreds (maybe low thousands from long term radiation damage), and make a few city blocks unlivable for the next few centuries.

Not to be an alarmist, but I think you're only taking into consideration the terrorist's somewhat limited means to fabricate a weapon using the available components required.

If they were to aquire a complete soviet-era h-bomb, things change considerably A bit more 'pop' than 'fizzle' with a megaton class device. I wonder if Putin knows the exact number of unaccounted-for warheads..

 

[LunarRay]

Originally posted by: shira
Some conservative commentators argue that the fact there hasn't been another terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 is proof that George Bush's anti-terrorism policies are working. But most people agree that it's only a matter of time before the U.S. suffers another attack. So here are the questions:

How will American be attacked?
When (approximately) will the attack occur?
How many Americans will die?

Shira, anti-terrorism policies also have kept elephants from invading my bathroom... I check all the time.. and so far have yet to see even one.

America will not be attacked based on a crap shoot.. the bad guys use that tool to effect their agenda... I presume that agenda has many components.. to 'punish' the US they could hurt us in the worst possible way and not even step foot in the US...
OIL.... render the oil fields unusable and they win.. big time.. Dirty Nuclear devices... constant disruption... bombing the facilities.. all sorts of nasty little tricks..
That was the what.. the when.. who knows... when they can if they are motivated to do that.. don't expect many will die from the event.. but from the trickle down effect... lots all around the world..

A thread a long time ago mentioned introducing disease via human carriers into the US.. that is the type of event I'd expect.. but of course I did read Tom Clancy's books..

 

[1prophet]

Don't worry we are in good hands


Let's bring them in by the thousands and hold hands and sing kumbaye


And the FBI is right on the case, nothing to see here




Our own greed, political correctness, and willing ignorance (which makes us believe we are invulnerable) is our greatest enemy, all the terrorists have done is learn how to exploit it and use it against us.

 

[palehorse]

Originally posted by: slash196
Al Qaeda will never strike inside the US again. They don't need to, and besides, 9/11 was a MONUMENTAL stroke of luck. Everything went wrong for the US at once and allowed them to slip through the cracks. I've believed this since day 1; 9/11 was a fluke.

That said, the question becomes impossible to answer, since it's impossible to know what threats we will face in the future. If I had to bet I'd say the next major terrorist strike in the US will probably be from a domestic terror organization. We are our own worst enemy.

1. it's also impossible for you to answer because you don't even understand the threats we face today... after all, you're not allowed to know.

2. you are chalking 9/11 up to "bad luck"?! it was a "fluke"?! And you honestly think that we will never be hit again because we'll be "lucky"?? Will that be for lack of trying, or because AQ and the others just dont want to or need to anymore? Do you have ANY clue what you're talking about?

uhg... I sometimes wish that I too could live in blissful ignorance, but, alas, not today...

 

[piasabird]

I predict that the US will be attacked by home-grown terrorists. USA will be attacked by Muslims living in our own country. All it takes is one terrorist recruitor convincing a few Muslims that they need to fight against the USA, Capitalism, or christians, or our military actions against Muslims in the Middle East. Just take a look at the UK and France and Holland and you can see a pattern.