Twitter proves to be a rather impressive information sharing tool as I'm following Shlok Vaidya's updates which are more enlightening than the mainstream coverage my television is showing.
Terrorists don't need WMD's to shut down a metropolis, just numbers, a semblance of organization and small arms. DHS should be taking notes right about now.
11 years ago
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"Terrorists don't need WMD's to shut down a metropolis, just numbers, a semblance of organization and small arms. DHS should be taking notes right about now."
Forget a metropolis, try an entire country. You think 9/11 was bad for shaking Americans confidence in security? See how things pan out when there is a rash of shootings at schools, malls, sporting events, grocery stores, etc. in (here's the key) medium sized cities in middle America. Omaha, Nashville, Reno, Oklahoma City, Butte, etc. 9/11 pissed a lot of people off and to some degree frightened them, but it could be rationalized away by saying that it would only happen in big cities (NYC, D.C., LA, etc.). You show that you have the power to strike anywhere at anytime and people are going to be much more frightened. The economic costs would be staggering. Take the mentality people had post 9/11 about travel inter-state and apply it on the micro level to their daily travel in their cities.
To be quite honest, I'm not sure if the terrorists have figured it out yet because these type of attacks would not be hard to equip for and would not be much harder to plan.
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