Nothing to see here
Is it just me, or is the official response to a training-model rocket launcher found near a transit station in Atlanta less than comforting?
Lazarus said there was no cause for public alarm and the city's rail-transit system was not interrupted by the discovery.The shoulder-held launcher was found around 2 p.m. by transit employees who were making a routine inspection of tracks near the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA station, said Gene Wilson, MARTA police chief.
Either MARTA really doesn't think this is a dry run of some kind, or they're trying to maintain calm.
Glad I'm working from home tomorrow, anyway. I don't like the sound of this.
This station is on the other end of the system from where I ride. I've noticed enhanced security at all stations, though. Good.
I also noticed a dead-eyed pair of arabic-looking gentlemen in a van with New York tags leaving my station yesterday afternoon.
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Dry run? That wouldn't be wise. Smater would be actual assualt and retreate.
The cell structure that makes Islamic terrorist the terror that they are, combined with guerilla tactics used in Viet Nam would be wiser. Be afraid of how smart these guys could get.
Also. Not all brown skinned people are Muslim.
Question who has the most to gain, or who stands to gain by attacks on America. Then question of that group how many are brown skinned.
Mighty big list.
Posted by: IXLNXS | May 19, 2004 11:00 PM
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I take your point about the dry run. Either this is a careless ordnance-lover's litter or maybe, just maybe, it was carelessly left behind by someone with dire intent. I could have made that clearer.
As to the fellows in the van, first of all I didn't say they were Muslim, and second of all they weren't all that dark but were obviously cultivating a glowering likeness to Osama Bin Laden.
As to your hypotheticals, they seem kind of silly since we know who's attacked us and who we need to kill. Maybe we can go down your hypothetical road once we've snuffed out the genuine and proven threat.
Posted by: Brian Jones | May 20, 2004 10:04 AM