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Old 06-24-2004, 01:24 PM   #60 (permalink)
onetime2
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Originally posted by NoSoup
Please take a moment to read This Story - I would be surprised if you still found your comment to be true. It is the same story from my original post, but it is an excellent example as to the "security" & "fail safes" in modern chemical plants.

As far as nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - Both Biological and Chemical weapons are more useful in inducing panic and causing terror than actually killing people in mass quantities. Nuclear weapons, however, are a different story.
(taken from This Thread 2nd Post, by MrSelfDestruct)



Onetime2 - I am not claiming to know what the terrorists goals are or aren't, I simply started this thread to begin a discussion about it. If I was 100% sure that I was wrong or right, I certainly wouldn't need to re-affirm my correctness, and even if I did, I certainly wouldn't put it in the Politics Forum...

I am believe however, that the terrorists, or anyone for that matter, could certainly kill many more people if that was their sole purpose was to kill as many civilians as possible.
I've read your article and your example is unrealistic. Notice I said failsafes not security. Go ahead and shoot one of the tanks and see if it causes the damage you suspect. It won't. Sudden losses of pressure trigger emergency transfer of chemicals, alarms, emergency response teams, etc. Additionally the risk of success for an attack like this is small. Terrorists need the attacks to be successful and need to maximize the chances for success.

Many in this thread claim the terrorists chose not to inflict as much death as possible by design. Please feel free to offer any substantiating evidence beyond "well they could have done this". Terrorist propaganda, actions, instruction and training manuals, and uncovered plots point to the exact opposite conclusion. When Bin Laden gave approval to Mohamed Atta to go ahead with the 9/11 attacks can anyone tell me why he cut Atta's plan from the original 10 planes? It certainly wasn't out of the goodness of his heart or because he felt 3000+ people would be sufficient.
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