What would you do if you were a terrorist?

[shuize]

What would you do if you were a terrorist?

Kill you.

 

[Beleth]

All that will happen if you do that is people will stop using buses.

This is no small thing! Imagine what would happen to... well, everything... if people were too afraid to take buses for even just a week or two.

Instead of buses, hit America in its heart. Shopping malls.

That is also a very good idea.

I think the key part of any plan I could come up with is that I wouldn't just do it to a big city. I'd pick some white-bread middle-of-a-cornfield town in Iowa or Kansas. If you go through the trouble to blow up a bus or a mall there, then nowhere would feel safe for a very long time after that.

 

[Hutch]

I think the key part of any plan I could come up with is that I wouldn't just do it to a big city. I'd pick some white-bread middle-of-a-cornfield town in Iowa or Kansas. If you go through the trouble to blow up a bus or a mall there, then nowhere would feel safe for a very long time after that.

I must disagree with this. Remember, the terrorist's audience is not just Americans, but opinion all over the world, and an attack on West Snotflicker, Mississippi is simply not going to have the visual or emotional impact worldwide that 9-11 did. No, I think any attack will be a very visable one on a major city/landmark.

My worries are along Tmy's comments...instead of going for the body counts, what if they adopt a 'monkey wrench' style? Imagine twenty terrorists, small C4 bombs, and all the High Tension Electric towers running across this country....Or on a larger scales, the acqeducts that supply water to LA and almost every major Western city. Small cost in lives/material, huge economic/social disruption.

In a way, the terrorists going for body counts may in the end be less destrutive to the US than other actions they might take--rather cold-blooded, I know, but still......