A reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish wonders why the undie-bomber didn’t just blow himself up in the toilet. It’s a good question, worth a full read. The fact is, the Bad Guys really don’t have to blow themselves up anymore.
Some guy strolls past security at the Newark airport and brings the airport —and much of the country— to a grinding halt. Shit, they can do that all day long.
Here’s one from the Abdullah Smays Dot Com Terrerorist play-book:
Twenty two-man teams dressed in hazmat suits. Maybe have the bio-hazard logo on the back. Each team just walks through a high-traffic area like a mall, an airport, football stadium. People would go ape shit trying to get out. Everything would shut down for hours. Hell, I’m not even sure it’s illegal to wear a hazmat suit.
Reminds me of a Peter O’Toole/Audrey Hepburn movie (How to Steal a Million, 1966) where they keep setting off the alarm in a Paris museum. The cops keep responding, only to find nothing. They finally turn off the alarm.
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You hit the nail on the head. If these guy’s master plan is to disrupt and cost the infidels millions then they are on a winner every time, no need for scorched gonads in economy class.
Wrong. If they want the forty virgins, they’ve got to go the whole route. Interesting to note that suicide bombers appear to be an exclusively Muslim phenomenon. I think even the IRA made sure to bomb the other guy instead. If we were getting babes instead of harps, who knows what Christians could accomplish.