In article , "Doki" writes:

D.P.Round wrote:

And what if Al Quada (sp) drop an airliner on a nuclear plant? That
would make 9/11 look like a minor mishap.

WHy? You think a few tons of jet fuel will make the reactor go
critical?

No. I know what makes a nuke tick. All it has to do is breach the
containment to cause a major incident. Factor in that the control
systems will not have long to shut down before they likely fail and
who knows?

I'm sure one of the world's largest economies can run to a couple of air
defence batteries and a few squaddies to stop that kind of business.

It could be done but the whole of the 9/11 disaster was allowed to happen
because nobody had considered the possible implications of doing something
so alien to a westerner. Has anybody done it now? I'd like to think so.

It shocked me that they didn't know where the aircraft were on 9/11. I'd
expected the military to track everything. Perhaps they pay more attention
now?


Bet your life? Al Quada are taking terrorism out of the box we know.
A lot of scenarios have not been evaluated.

I'll believe that only when there's a bloke with a shemagh on his head
waving an AK47 through my letterbox. The IRA, on the other hand, have almost
certainly got semtex and blokes in the country.


The American's had the same problem. No doubt the IRA's skills and resources
have a price.

PS: Could you please learn to attribute the quoted text in your replies? You
are supposed to be some kind of Unix beard after all.

Especially for you

I really should stop using this ancient news reader. Still it has served
me well for 15 or so years - old dog new tricks and all that.

David

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