i preferr the removal of all the muslim theocraties
--- "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks, Bobby (and all of you for your well
> wishes!).
>
> There has been some interesting modeling done with a
> couple DoD Cray
> supercomputers (one of them is just down the street)
> regarding attacks
> within the U.S. borders. Essentially what's going
> on is that tens of
> thousands of scenarios and tens of thousands of
> different parameters
> (gathered from the latest Situation Reports) nested
> in those scenarios are
> "played out" using the Crays. If a pattern develops
> that is statistically
> significant, the scenarios are manually examined for
> plausibility. This is
> one part of the process of determining the threat
> "level".
>
> The latest indications are that we've pretty much
> protected the "hard"
> targets: military bases, nuclear facilities,
> critical infrastructure, etc.
> So, the "soft" targets and targets of opportunity
> are showing up as likely
> loci for an attack. Such places as: universities,
> defense related
> industries, "icon" industries (ex. The "Coca Cola"
> facilities in Atlanta,
> Proctor and Gamble's home office in Ohio, IBM's
> world HQ in New York),
> secondary cities like Ken mentioned: Dallas,
> Atlanta, Chicago, etc.
>
> It's not an exact science, by any means. It's about
> at the same level as
> computerized weather modeling stood in the late
> '70s. (I only know these
> things because I've been sent to Disaster
> Preparedness classes ad nauseum).
>
> You'd be surprised at the amount of activity going
> on covertly in the US and
> around the world. I think I've mentioned this
> before, but for all the Bush
> administration lacks in domestic policy, they've
> done a bang-up job of
> keeping the lid on threats--many of them never even
> hit the media. I can't
> say that I would have felt nearly as calm with Mr.
> Clinton as
> Commander-in-Chief.
>
> But yes, Al Queda is getting more militant about
> hitting civilians on U.S.
> soil. The latest jihad specifically called for
> attacks against American men
> women and children here in the States. The idea is
> to use terror to change
> American foreign policy by scaring the voters into
> demanding a complete
> military and diplomatic withdrawal from Muslim
> theocracies.
>
> -Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BG Greer, PhD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Dang!
>
>
> Kyle,
>
> I am sorry you friend gave his life for his
> country, although he
> would
> probably have preferred it to be that way. Be well
> when you batten down the
> hatches. From the news, it sounds like Al Queda is
> quite serious in wanting
> to bring terrorism to us.
> Love to Laura and the kids.
>
> Bobby
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