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Iraq collapse may pose new WMD threat, say UN monitors

By George Smith, Dick Destiny → More by this author
21 Jun 2007 11:36

Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals...

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"Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot" by Bruce Schneier 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 21st June 2007 13:01 GMT

A good read on the plot against JFK (apparently the terros weren't sure whether the were hitting the place or the man):

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/portrait_of_the.html

NY JFK Pipeline 

By Stephane Mabille
Posted Thursday 21st June 2007 13:21 GMT

In the case of Russell Defreitas, of course exploding kerosene tanks would cause some issues; but the majority of media emphasises were on the "unthinkable effect" of blowing pipeline burried under NY crowded areas. That would be if Russell Defreitas was a total genius and discovered a way to detonate kerosene without any need for oxygen as the pipe are... burried (and I'm not a NY soil specialist but I don't think the city is build on thin air).

Iraq collapse - new WMD threat 

By Pascal Monett
Posted Thursday 21st June 2007 14:16 GMT

Oh my gosh ! Are we going to have to invade it again ?

As for New York, it's not built on thin air, it's built on hot air. ;-)

Practice makes perfect. 

By rlow
Posted Thursday 21st June 2007 18:57 GMT

Yes, and you'll have to invade again and again until you get it right!

So Technically... 

By Greg Nelson
Posted Friday 22nd June 2007 00:45 GMT

... would a fart be classified as a biological weapon?

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