RE: [NW-LEO] Re: CRIME Kayak rental info.

From: Mark_S_Hanneman@private
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 13:52:39 PDT

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    Good points, but remember the goal of a terrorist:  cause change through
    FEAR.  Simultaneous attacks (an UBL trademark) on soft civilian targets will
    scare people, especially if there are heavy casualties.  I would think it
    would take a lot more than 600 pds of C4 to take out one of those big cruise
    ships, but I'm not an engineer.  How about hitting a tanker or a liquid gas
    carrier in harbor?  Big bang and perhaps a lot of casualties.  I keep
    thinking chemical plants near population centers would be a good target.
    Remember Bhopal?
    
    Mark
    Mark S. Hanneman
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    US Dept of Energy
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Todd Ellner [mailto:tellner@private]
    Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:48 AM
    To: Mitch Fong; nw-leo@private
    Cc: crime@private; fw@private
    Subject: [NW-LEO] Re: CRIME Kayak rental info.
    
    
    Interesting memo. And yet more proof that it is impossible to ever be
    completely safe. What was it that Eisenhower said in his last presidential
    address? "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute
    security" or words close to that.
    
    Thinking of the particulars, something seems odd. The USS Cole was an
    excellent target in the harbor in Yemen. It was a great symbol. Pretty much
    everyone was on board. A cruise ship seems, hmm, less good. It will only be
    fully loaded when it's in the deep ocean or just coming and going from the
    harbor. In the harbor there would  be lots of other ships around making
    rescue efforts easier. In the deep ocean paddling after a ship under full
    steam seems futile.
    
    
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