I’ve heard the “Another attack is coming! Stay home Sept. 22!” spam a number of times now (really giving the old Delete button a workout), and Snopes, unnervingly, just has it as yellow, “Not proven”.
And not meaning to sound Midwest-centric here, but I can’t think of what out West they’d want to bomb. You’re wanting to strike a blow at America’s symbols of financial, political, and military power–what’s out there to blow up?
All I can think of are historical landmarks like Mt. Rushmore (obviously impossible), and the Alamo (but why?)
SAC in Omaha, or wherever it is? They may be crazy but they’re not stupid. Just some air force base or army base in Texas somewhere?
Maybe the Space Shuttle on the ground? But if the idea is to drop a full tank of jet fuel on whatever it is, that would be too far from San Antonio.
Well, if CA counts as “West”, we’re having a huge tribute show tonight (a day early, but you really can’t trust these terrorists). Its being carried on a grand total of 20 channels.
Weve also go the financial districts in San Francisco, and Los Angeles, if you want to keep hammering the markets.
Of course they probably couldn’t do anything to NORAD, but it’s in Colorado.
There are huge dams out west that could spell trouble for many if they were targeted.
Who knows? They could target anything, really.
Fox News last week, quoting Ashcroft, saying that sites in Atlanta had been targeted, but what would they have hit in Atlanta?
Microsoft? The Golden Gate Bridge? Naval stations in Long Beach, San Diego et al.? Disneyland? Hollywood? The Miss America Pageant is in Atlantic City saturday night.
Nuclear power plants? Hoover Dam? Something I was wondering is, granted the fire in the WTC was fairly concentrated, what if they crashed into a dam? Would the fuel stick in one place long enough to heat the concrete up to the point that it’d crack & break?
My girlfriend is from Seattle and she was embarassed that they closed down the Space Needle. But ummm as far as out west…I’m not really sure. Maybe the Golden Gate Bridge? Maybe one of the many military bases in and around San Diego? Maybe just downtown LA in general, who knows?
Vandenberg AFB, which is our polar-orbit launch site for military payloads. Just launched a new satellite this week. There is a Titan 2 launch of a military payload scheduled soon.
Silicon Valley is too spread out.
There is a football game, UCLA-Ohio State, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday. They’re expecting 70K, and it is nationally televised.
The Federal Reserve doesn’t exist in one place. It’s all over the country. As for attacking the CDC, one would hope that it would be pretty hard for someone to get in and steal dangerous germs from the place. If you tried to blow it up, you would kill the germs in the explosion.
DIA - the biggest airport hub around these parts…constantly full, thousands and thousands of people in and out of there every day… and hey, a buffalo herd!
Qwest building downtown, sports arenas, Tech Center…
I think Lookout Mountian is where most of our radio antenneas sit…
Eisenhower Tunnel…
Really, the only two that strike me as the most compelling, terrorism wise -are DIA and Lockheed Martin.
I have a friend who’s a student at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and she said that on the 11th there was a rumor going around that they were “target number 7.”
You may laugh, but I can just see Osama sitting there rubbing his hands together and cackling maniacally about the impending destruction of the Baylor College of Medicine.
(Actually, Baylor is part of a huge medical center, but still…)
Hmm. There are tens of thousands of people gathered in a relatively small area every day. Disneyland. And talk about a symbol of American decadence - the UberMaus!
Quite seriously, the Disney parks are on quite high security alert. It is a lot of people, and it is an American icon.
The Disney parks are under pretty tight security, although they do a good job of disguising it. Disneyland and its related parks are pretty hard to hit with something like a car bomb because you can’t park particularly close to the park, so you would need someone on the inside to do the job.
The Flordia parks have even more space between the parking lots and the park itself.
Barring the possibility of someone setting off some nonconvential weapon at the park, it would be hard to do the same sort of damage to Disneyland or Walt Disney World as you would to the WTC.
Not that the death of anyone would be a good thing.
