Our future? Look at the Moscow hostages

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chechen.jpgC-SPAN is probably the best thing on the air today, but the people who call in are usually people with nothing better to do and it’s reflected in their comments. But a caller this morning made a great point. The fantastic taking of 700 hostages at a Moscow theater by Muslim Chechen separatists is just the kind of thing we can likely expect here in the U.S. if we invade Iraq.

Granted, we don’t have a separatist Muslim state within our borders, but things can still get ugly. I was talking over dinner with some friends about the worst case scenario if we go to war. Alina agreed with me that it’s almost certain that Hussein will chem/bio attack Israel (not to mention our troops) if he’s attacked. Old man Sharon won’t play around and respond with nukes. If anything will radicalize the mythical “Arab street,” this will. Governments in Saudi, Jordan and Pakistan could fall. If Pakistan falls to Islamists, then they’ll have The Bomb. Will India feel like they have to attack preemptively? How’s China going to feel about this?

Meanwhile, the Council on Foreign Relations just released its Hart-Rudman report that concludes, “In all likelihood, the next attack will result in even greater casualties and widespread disruption to American lives and the economy.” The report lists all the ways in which the U.S. is vulnerable. Al-Qaeda could pick it up to get some pretty good ideas:

Few of the ships, trucks and trains that enter the United States each day are searched, the report said. Emergency personnel are unprepared for chemical or biological attacks. Oil refineries and energy distribution lines could be sabotaged. State and local police still lack access to State Department terrorist watch lists.

And this threat exists today. The FBI has also just released the most specific terror alert I’ve heard since right after the attacks. It says trains could be attacked by “operatives who have a Western appearance,” and that “operatives may try a variety of other attack strategies, such as destroying key rail bridges and sections of track to cause derailments, or targeting hazardous material containers. Recently captured Al Qaeda photographs of U.S. railroad engines, cars and crossings heightens the intelligence community’s concern of this threat.” But hey, we don’t want to panic anyone, so we’re still at Yellow Alert.

Oct 25, 2002 | Comments

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2 comments posted

  1. Posted by muslim - 02/14/2003

    ei nohchi nado eche chtoto zahvatit ato etim ryskim ia vijy ne hvotaet.ny koroche tak derjat’ nohcho

  2. Posted by urka - 11/11/2003

    eto tol’ko nachalo, kak govorit’sya pervie shagi k bol’shomu… na sledushiy ras budet kreml’ so vsemi ee artistami:)))inshaAllah
    Allahu AKbar!!!!

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