Possibly Iraq/Taliban connection before 9/11?

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/17/171214.shtml

 

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/

 

Seeing how that article is over a year old I don't think anything came of the alleged discovery.

 

speaking of terrorists, this would have been the target more likely to kill me than attacking almost anything else, the downtown path trains, which i ride every day and run directly outside my house:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/n...5e7e148ab1a3ae&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

Good thing these fools didn't have enough sense to come to America to plan their attack.

 

<Rod Sterling> Picture if you will a repressive and expansionistic regime run by a power mad tyrant. Also, it possesses the 3rd largest oil reserve, but due to sanctions, cannot export most of it. With much of his military force destroyed, with no power projection ability, how can he lift such sanctions? Mind you, it has WMD's (ask the Kurds), and it has used them before </Rod Sterling>

 

i thought about this alot, and i figure an attack on the hudson tubes could be truly destructive. the tubes are cast iron and laid out basically between my apartment on the river in new jersey underwater to the bottom of the world trade center site, which used to be 7 stories underground, but now is open air. the tubes are not underground below the river but actually on the bottom of the river. if a hole were blown into the tubes, i think water would flow all the way through the tubes and flood where the tubes emerge in jersey city out towards newark, as well as the entire world trade site. potentially the deep hole in the ground at world trade would completely level up with water from the river, and maybe even flow into the new york subways connecting at world trade. and that would really be something, becuuse that could flood tunnels all the way to harlem and brooklyn. i think a tube puncture could be far more damaging than the brooklyn bridge threat, because of how far floods could go in the tunnels. then again, the hudson tubes are for path trains only, so unlike theholland tunnel, you cant drive bombs in, so i have no clue how these fellas thought they could blow through cast iron tubes with bombs they would have to physically carry in the stations on their backs.

ok that was boring but it interests me to think of it.

 

Their intent was to flood the financial district, apparently. Now as I recall (and I could be wrong, as it's been a couple years since I was there), isn't the financial district ABOVE the Hudson River, elevation-wise? I'm no civil engineer, but I'm pretty sure that water doesn't flow upward. Sure, it could destroy a chunk of Newark, but I can't think of anybody who would be particularly distraught about that. :hihi: