Sometimes it is really painful to be right.
When are our “Security” people going to start thinking ahead of the killers instead of reacting to their initiatives?
And when will we initiate above & below the waterline/internal & external inspections of incoming ships outside twenty miles from our shores?
Can’t be done?
Too many ships?
Then we better brace ourselves for loss of a harbor city…or two…or more.
Is anyone planning how to respond to the aftermath of such an attack?
i.e., document the probable effects…
Prompt is easy.
But what about the economics of a post-nuke attack ?
Examine what was affected by the 9/11 attack and extrapolate those effects to post nuke explosion(s).
If that has not already been done, in depth and with counter-strategies, we are being set up to die as an effective nation.
One suggestion: Stockpiling non-perishable food in locked and guarded warehouses… enough to feed the populations cut off from “just-in-time” replenishment of our super markets for at least three months.
The alternative?
Post attack food riots, civil society breakdown, hundreds of thousands dead when “just in time” food distribution systems fail.
We should be planning how to deal with every aspect of society after such an attack.
I’ve heard of no sign of that.
Our civilization is so fragile, so dependent upon complex and highly vulnerable systems, that it offers horrifying opportunities to terrorists.
No way we can make ourselves “safe” … but we can mitigate the worst outcomes and offer the terrorists a far less vulnerable target.
Fear of a hysterical public response to revelation of such plans is akin to whistling past the graveyard; yes, there will be such response.
That’s where mature leadership comes in.
No degree of public panic when the possible truth is exposed, will even remotely approach the catastrophes that will follow if timidity is allowed to prevent vital planning and preventative measures while we still can.
Our leading security people just testified to Congress that they consider another terrorist attack this year to be certain !!
So everyone thinks “underwear bomber”.
They did not say that.
And Sen. Feinstein did not ask them what kind of attack they are expecting … and if she had, I believe they would not have specified a type.
Why?
Because there are so many ways that no one can possibly catalog them all.
And that’s why they said an attack is certain.
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Bosom bombers: Women have explosive breast implants
Authorities alarmed by possibility of surgically placed explosives
Posted: February 01, 2010
10:16 pm Eastern© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND.

Suicide bomber Iat Alacharas, 18
LONDON – Agents for Britain’s MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.
Similar surgery has been performed on male suicide bombers. In their cases, the explosives are inserted in the appendix area or in a buttock. Both are parts of the body that diabetics use to inject themselves with their prescribed drugs.
The discovery of these methods was made after the London-educated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came close to blowing up an airliner on Christmas Day with explosives he had stuffed inside his underpants.
Keep in touch with the most important breaking news stories about critical developments around the globe with Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence news source edited and published by the founder of WND.
Hours after he had failed, GCHQ – Britain’s worldwide eavesdropping “spy in the sky” agency – began to pick up “chatter” emanating from Pakistan and Yemen that alerted MI5 to the creation of the lethal implants.
A hand-picked team was appointed by Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, to investigate the threat. He described it as “one that can circumvent our defense.”
Top surgeons who work in the National Health Service confirmed the feasibility of the explosive implants.
In a report to Evans, one said:
“Properly inserted the implant would be virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines. You would need to subject a suspect to a sophisticated X-ray. Given that the explosive would be inserted in a sealed plastic sachet, and would be a small amount, would make it all the more impossible to spot it with the usual body scanner.”
Explosive experts at Britain’s Porton Down biological and chemical warfare research center told MI5 that a sachet containing as little as five ounces of PETN when activated would blow “a considerable hole” in an airline’s skin which would guarantee it would crash.