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[Wino]

Osama is again making nasty broadcasts. Do board members feel safe flying these days?

DUBAI (AFP) – Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing of a US airliner and vowed further strikes on US targets, in an audio message broadcast on Sunday.

The brief statement carried by Al-Jazeera satellite television warned Washington that the attack was meant as a similar message to that of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US carried out by 19 Al-Qaeda militants who hijacked airliners and crashed them into buildings.

Bin Laden in the statement praised as a "hero" Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who allegedly tried to detonate explosives on a Northwest Airline over Detroit on December 25 but who was foiled when passengers pounced on him.

http://news.yahoo.co...nigeriabinladen

[lvdkeyes]

I feel as safe flying as doing anything else. Flying is not the only risk. Those people in The World Trade Center were not flying. Remember when the car bomb exploded there?

[Wino]

True, but seems in order to kill US citizens the odds favorite is to involve airplanes.

[lvdkeyes]

Perhaps, using planes will kill more at one time, but I think more other types of terrorist attacks occur.

[Beer Chang]

The planes were unexpected and the next wave terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 will also be unexpected. Perhaps poisoning a cities water supply?

[Wino]

lvdkeyes, on 25 January 2010 - 05:29 AM, said:

I feel as safe flying as doing anything else. Flying is not the only risk. Those people in The World Trade Center were not flying. Remember when the car bomb exploded there?

Flying is not the only risk, but would be the major risk for the average US citizen or board member, here.

[Beer Chang]

Wino, on 26 January 2010 - 05:07 AM, said:

Flying is not the only risk, but would be the major risk for the average US citizen or board member, here.

I disgree. They've been there, done that. Look for something different.

[Wino]

Beer Chang, on 26 January 2010 - 06:09 AM, said:

I disgree. They've been there, done that. Look for something different.

I agree with you about Al-Qaida looking for something different. The organization is adaptable and is changing its tactics all the time. My statement about flying is because in the past, an American layman has been most vulnerable to a terrorist attack in an airplane.

[Beer Chang]

Adaptabilty is an advantage that Samsons have over Goliaths.

[Wino]

When I heard about this explosion, I thought Al-Qaida has adapted. Let's hope not, but we will see what happens.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers and injuring a dozen or more.

The explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown, about 20 miles south of Hartford, could be heard and felt for miles.

Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano told The Associated Press on Sunday night that no one was known to be missing amid the rubble from the damaged plant. Still, crews planned to spend all night going through debris in case there were any more victims. The cause of the gas explosion was unknown, and the investigation was to begin Monday morning, he said.

http://news.yahoo.co...hc2JsYXN0YXRjbw--

[Beer Chang]

The above is just one example of what could be the next terrorist strike.

[Wino]

Beer Chang stated, "The above is just one example of what could be the next terrorist strike."

Let's hope not, but it sure could be possible. Do you think the government is tightening security around power and water plants?

[Bob]

Wino, on 09 February 2010 - 02:51 AM, said:

Beer Chang stated, "The above is just one example of what could be the next terrorist strike."

Let's hope not, but it sure could be possible. Do you think the government is tightening security around power and water plants?

Yes, it's happened years ago....but, of course, there are those that argue that not enough has been done (there ain't enough money in the world to make everything perfectly safe).

[Beer Chang]

Bob, on 09 February 2010 - 03:39 AM, said:

(there ain't enough money in the world to make everything perfectly safe).

Seems quite easy to kill lots of people on any streetcorner or subway car in the New York.

[Wino]

I sometimes think it would be easy for the terrorists to drop a bomb from a small plane on a crowded sports stadium. Like you implied, if the terrorists are determined, it would be easy to kill many people in New York or any big city.

[Beer Chang]

I agree. The toughest game to do it would be the Super Bowl.

But it would be a dramatic effect to drop the bomb right after the planes that flew in formation after the National Anthem passed by.

[Wino]

A former associate said a football game with 92,000 people in attendance may have been the target.

SYDNEY – An Australian court Monday sentenced five Muslim extremists to prison terms of 23 to 28 years after convicting them of preparing for terror attacks on unspecified targets by stockpiling explosive chemicals and firearms.

Justice Anthony Whealy of the New South Wales Supreme Court said he had little hope that the men, aged 25 to 44, could be rehabilitated, saying they were motivated by "intolerant, inflexible religious conviction" and had shown contempt for the Australian government, its leaders and laws.

The men were found guilty last October on charges linked to preparing for a terrorist act between July 2004 and November 2005. The men — Australian-born or naturalized citizens with Muslim immigrant backgrounds — had all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

They had stockpiled explosive chemicals and firearms, though it was not established where they would target.

During the trial, a former associate of the suspects testified that the group had considered bombing an Australian Rules football final in Melbourne in 2005 that was attended by almost 92,000 people. Prosecutors said they had also discussed killing former Prime Minister John Howard.

Australian court sentences 5 men in terror plot - Yahoo! News

[Wino]

Cheney and Biden are at it again. Many people think Biden is wrong and the terrorists are coming up with new ideas to wreck havoc on the US and the world.

By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Dick Cheney says his successor, Joe Biden, is "dead wrong" about terrorist threats facing the United States. Biden says Cheney is "misinformed."And the feud goes on.

Highly partisan public skirmishes between President Barack Obama's White House and Cheney have become standard fare. And the back-and-forth on the Sunday morning talk shows did not disappoint.

Biden struck first, declaring that Cheney's attacks on Obama's commitment to fighting al-Qaida ignored the facts.

"We've eliminated 12 of their top 20 people. We have taken out 100 of their associates," said Biden. "They are in fact not able to do anything remotely like they were in the past. They are on the run. I don't know where Dick Cheney has been. Look, it's one thing, again, to criticize. It's another thing to sort of rewrite history. What is he talking about?"

Cheney insisted Biden was "dead wrong" to assert that a fresh Sept. 11-style strike was unlikely, calling a nuclear or biological attack by al-Qaida "the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today."

Biden and Cheney spar over anti-terrorism policies - Yahoo! News