why there hasn't been a surge of 'terror' attacks

[jaster]

the reason their has not been a number of small attacks on the united state as there have been in palistine or in iraq is realy quite sound. keep in mind this is only my theory. it is becuase the security in america is still relatively lax, what i mean is that you could sneak a piece of razor-edged plastic onto a plane and no one would be the wiser. you could walk into a crowded shopping mall and detonate a belt bomb, you could... the list goes on. anyway, what i am trying to say is, if you are a restitance fighter, dont waste your time on meaningless attacks that would only produce minimal casulties, go for the biggies that would stun the nation. these people are colaberating and have the means to wreck havoc, and when the time comes, i am sure that they will, and when they do, it will result in the downfall of the americaqn postion in the world today.

[ReD_ReBeL]

wait so u want people here to kill mass amounts of innocent human beings? are you alright in the head or slightly fucked up?

[jaster]

no, i'm explaining why, neither condone nor support

[expatriot]

I tend to agree with you. Today, bin Laden announced that new attacks are under way. They're not going to waste their time with a car bomb. I think they will do something with airplanes again or blow up the bridges and tunnels of New York. Do you have any idea how vulnerable we really are?

I was in Wash DC last month and someone left an unattended bag ( I mean a large cloth, shoulder bag) in front of the Treasury Bldg. at night. I was walking by and was shocked to see it. The "guards" were just talking and not paying attention to anything that was going on and this is by the White House-all closed to traffic by these huge cement blockades. Well, someone walking in front of us reported this bag and all hell broke loose. I tell you, people are asleep at the wheel in America.

Honestly, I'm sick of waiting for the mushroom cloud. First, the air raid drills in school when the Russians were going to drop the atom bomb on us, then Reagan and the arms race, now Al Qaeda.

Right now, I am more afraid of the US govt than bin Laden and I live in NY.

[Severian]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2006, 02:20 PM
what i am trying to say is, if you are a restitance fighter, dont waste your time on meaningless attacks that would only produce minimal casulties, go for the biggies that would stun the nation.
But of course there haven't been any of those either.

Let me suggest another reason: there is no homegrown constituency for al-Qaeda in the U.S.

In Iraq, Palestine, even London and Madrid, organizations and cells have grown up on the spot which have carried out terrorist attacks. But al-Qaeda has little or no political foothold in the Muslim population in the U.S., unlike the UK for example.

Those who carried out the 9/11 attacks came to the U.S. specifically to carry them out, part of an action internationally coordinated out of Germany and Afghanistan.

After 9/11, al-Qaeda lost the "safe haven" in Afghanistan, and had heavy blows dealt to its international structure. New cells have sprung up inspired by the al-Qaeda ideology and capable of carrying out local attacks, but there's no evidence the international organization is still functioning.

Really, why would anyone think this ultraright terrorist group was indestructible? On the contrary, terrorism has always been a self-defeating strategy.

[jaster]

that is true, but may i ask you this, why has not another 'hamburg' cell sprung up yet, but when you thing about it, that cell was active for multiple years in germany and america, so maybe there are many implanted sleeper cells, ready for one massive blitz that would cripple the infrastructure, but this again is just a hypothosis, but still...

[Severian]

Then why haven't they woken up? Also, a sleeper cell isn't in cryonic suspension; it can't be counted on to remain effective forever...inactive people will find other things to do with their lives.