Be afraid, be very afraid. Terrorists, brilliant terrorists, wanted to flood the financial district of Manhattan by blowing up the Holland Tunnel. Not kidding. You can read the whole story about how we got the Lebanese government to arrest this guy, and we got to question him, and how cool it all is. Word of warning, though, if you are wondering how blowing up a tunnel that runs along the floor of the Hudson River would flood anything more than the Hudson RIver, you just have to read to near the end.
Besides bedrock, the tunnel is protected by concrete and cast-iron steel.
Experts also said that even if the tunnel cracked, the Financial District would not be flooded because it is above the level of the river.
Right. The tunnel is BELOW the financial district, so it would not be flooded by physics-challenged terrorists. These guys belong in the same category as the man that wanted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch and the guy who couldn’t light his own shoelaces on fire.
I’m really scared. Are you?
I’m more afraid of the loss of our Constitution and civil liberties under the extremes of BushCo than a terrorist attack.
Army Information Services Command-Pentagon in their tireless tracking of peace activists, environmentalists, and dissenters of the Cheney Misadministration are looking into my ties to terrorism.
Sitemeter Report (screen capture here)
Screen capture of the referring URL from search.blogger.com:
Just a lazy liberal in the Pentagon surfing on his lunch break.
on MSIE – that’s a bigger threat to national security
too funny.
Perhaps, but didn’t Rumsfeld throw out all the Pentagon Liberals and block Internet access to Liberal blogs?
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It takes about three minutes to circumvent any firewall they might have put up. No, I’m not going to tell you how to do it. Just yell down one of those Internet tube thingies, someone will yell back with the instructions.
Of course if you do it the way I do it, when someone hits your blog it shows up with their home IP address, not the Pentagon’s. On the other hand I think it might be fun to find an open proxy at the Pentagon and give all your liberal blogger friends a thrill (until the Army came around to arrest you for “breaking into” their computers, anyway).
I’m not sure about Pentagon workers, but I know if you write a post about Centcom, a Centcom PR officer named PSC C. Flowers will leave you a nice comment. Give it a try, you might like it.
So if the FBI stopped an explosion that wouldn’t have harmed the buildings and tunnel and bridges…what are they doing about Terrorism and Urban Crime in places like Philly as well as NYC?
I’ll be spending a number of coming years crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in SF…and I’m not afraid of the terrorists. I’m afraid of the ‘terror’ that is being imposed on the people by this administration and the complicit media.
Yeah, I was shaking in my fucking liberal grey New Balance 991s when I read the headline and the stories to follow on various news sites.
Scary scary scary!!!
From the AP article:
Yeah, thank’s for the clarification, asshats.
If they were monitoring this planning so closely, why didn’t they wait and see if it was just a bunch of idiots [like those Sears Tower geniuses] or a real plausible threat that they could take down and potentially a larger network?
I have aspirations of Dubya being ousted from office. I’ve actually even moved offline in discussions! I’ve even transferred monies into operations to get him out. Good god, stop me!
This is how low the Media thinks of the public; and truly is a measure of how gullible the public has become, how Reagan’s cuts in education funding and will have dumbed down the American public.
Also goes to show you that 1. How Ignorant Editors Are. (doughtful) or 2. How vicious and comtemtable editors are towards the public.
Just a matter of time until the MSM picks up this tip and report it as fact and urge others to follow suit, you know, to fight terrorism.
And get your rolls of duct tape ready too.
I’m watcihg some very pretty, well made up woman on CNN breathlessly repprting it all right now. They even have a tape of an interview with a guy in a car hear there saying “NOW I’m afraid!”
Perfect.
Bend over, America. Must be time for another fear injection.
Oh yeah, I am pissing my pants I am so scared. I have a feeling we will be hearing this kind of crap for the next few months until the elections folks. They need to be able to say, See, we repubs can keep you safe. What a bunch of BS!!
Indeed, it is strange that all of the terror alerts of 2004 stopped coming the day the 2004 Presidential election ended. Somehow all of the terrorists must have formed a pact together to quit trying to kill ‘muricans until some point in the future when they would again agree to resume their evil, wicked ways. The bad guys couldn’t be more coordinated than if they were in the pay of the posse squatting in the Oval Office.
I usually keep my politics out of the workplace aside from the Kerry-Edwards sticker that’s still on my bike frame, but when the lady who I share an office with [who knows I’m from NY] brought up this story, I lost it for a second on how there’s all these stupid stories trying to scare us constantly.
I screamed at my radio over this ridiculousness this morning.
You don’t need a degree in hydrology to know you cannot freakin’ flood a location that is above sea level from a tunnel that is below sea level.
My Gawd. Has America’s education system gotten this bad? Are Americans this stupid?
…apparently we swedes aren’t considered that gullible; they report:
Neither the NYPD or the FBI at first wanted to corroborate the story. But now the FBI corroborates it with the addition that it wasn’t the Holland tunnel that was the target but the metro which passes under the Hudson river.
If that addition isn’t just there because they know we aren’t that easily fooled 🙂 but is in fact stating fact then I suppose there could be some truth to the claim of wanting to flood the Financial district (or at least the tube emanating there).
Has there been any addition spewing forth to this story in the US?
Terrified, in fact. Mainly of exploding cows. Cause let’s face it, there isn’t much else around Conecuh County Alabama a terrorist could use against honest American patriots.
The cows are potentially very dangerous to me and my neighbors if they should temporarily fall into the wrong hands.