New Attack on America Be Afraid
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by user Erooster
As many of you probably already know, there was a posting on an Islamic site (on Oct. 12) to bomb NFL games on October 22. This date celebrates the final day of the holy month of Rhamadan.
The targeted cities were listed as New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland. The device: a dirty bomb. "The death toll will approach 100,000 from the initial blasts and countless other fatalities will later occur as result from radioactive fallout," according to a copy of the posting that was obtained by The Associated Press.
Homeland Security has told the NFL that the threat is minimal and that they are skeptical of the seriousness of the threat. However, should such an event take place, it would be catastophic to not only the cities involved, but to the country as a whole.
As a recent spectator to an NFL contest, I am not all that sure that we could effectively keep such a weapon from entering a stadium. I was briefly patted down and still got into the game with an rather large knife. It would seem to me that a crew could easily get the pieces needed to construct such a weapon into a game.
I would appreciate hearing what other ACGM members think on this "problem" and the news story. You can read the article on most major news pages, but I got mine from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222219,00.html.
