Where and when will next big terrorist attack happen?

Answer 1

I don't want to speculate and here is why: I have had discussions among close friends about potential targets and vulnerabilities, some of which really concern me. Since this is the internet and we know there are anti-american elements here and likely links to terrorist groups right within this forum I wouldn't want to give them any ideas. There are some things about which one should remain silent.

Answer 2

I predict it will happen just before the next U.S. presidential election. My guess: probably one of our open ports like Los Angeles or San Diego.
The big question is: will it be the work of terrorists, or will it be an attack orchestrated by the Bush administration to keep G.W. and Dick Cheney in power under martial law until they've finally sucked all the oil out of Iraq?
-RKO-

Answer 3

Come on you have not gotten tired of ( the terrorist is coming, the terrorist is coming ) crap yet. Okay they are coming some where, some place, some time and so is the bird flu and so is mad cow disease. So let's all just call in our chips, pop some pills, drink something to make us feel good but whatever we do, let's not let the government keep us hostage to paranoid.

Answer 4

Probably something no one will think of. Not unless you have a 9-5 terrorist desk job to contemplate that sorta thing. I wonder if they get paid lunch?

Answer 5

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary - H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956


Wanted: Enemy to Justify $344 Billion War Budget

By Ben Cohen, AlterNet. Posted September 4, 2001.


Last week, the co-founder of Ben and Jerry's argued the U.S. government is looking for a new villain to justify a Pentagon budget increase. This week, it found one -- under the worst of circumstances.




You may know some despicable characters, but are they mean enough to apply for this job posting?


ENEMY WANTED. Serious enemy needed to justify Pentagon budget increase. Defense contractors desperate. Interested enemies send letter and photo or video (threatening, ok) to Enemy Search Committee, Priorities Campaign, 1350 Broadway, NY, NY, 10018.

Here's the deal: We know our politicians have their work cut out for them. They need to find an enemy to justify maintaining the Pentagon budget as if the Cold War never ended. But the pool of credible enemies is evaporating. North Korea is even going diplomatic. The Soviets took themselves out of the running years ago. And countries like Iraq -- or tough looking trading partners like China -- don't make the cut.

So, I am distributing a job description as widely as possible to help our politicians find the enemy they seek. Even with the help of defense contractors -- who spend $50 million on lobbyists annually -- our politicians do not possess the creativity to find the right adversary. It's clear that the old concept of enemy doesn't work anymore.

The trouble is the Defense Department needs to find an enemy in a hurry. The Bush Administration has proposed to increase Pentagon spending by $33 billion, the largest defense increase since the Cold War.

This inexplicable proposal is under attack by children's advocates, who would rather use the $33 billion earmarked for the Pentagon to begin modernizing our crumbling public schools and to buy health insurance for millions of U.S. kids and Head Start for the one-third of eligible children who can't get in because it's under-funded.

As pressure mounts to pay for these domestic programs -- and the size of the projected surplus shrinks -- defense contractors and the Pentagon PR machine, including their legion of liaisons on Capitol hill, are getting nervous. Meanwhile, high tech airplanes crash inexplicably, Star Wars tests miss their targets, and the budget crunch in Congress looms. All of this raises questions, questions, questions:

- Why does the Pentagon need a budget of $344 billion -- which would be over three times as much as the combined defense spending of Russia, China, and America's potential adversaries (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria)? And this does include not the over $200 billion spent by U.S. allies annually on defense.

- How do Congress and the President know how much money the Pentagon needs when it can't pass a financial audit -- despite legal obligations to do so? Without audited books, the President and Congress do not know for certain what the Pentagon has and what it really needs.

- Why does the federal government want to spend $344 billion on the Pentagon, when the federal government currently spends only $42 billion on education, $26 billion on affordable housing, $6 billion on Head Start, and only $1 billion on school construction? Does it appear that our national priorities are mixed up or what?

These would be tough questions, even if America had a serious enemy. Without one, these are devastating questions -- and it's so painful to see our politicians trying to answer them that I want to help them find an enemy as quickly as possible.

Larger trends are also causing our politicians to squirm when defending the Pentagon budget, and frankly it's an embarrassing sight (hence, again, the immediate enemy need). For example:

- In our country -- the richest nation in the world -- 14 million kids attend schools that need extensive renovation or replacement. In international test scores, our eighth graders rank 18 in math and 19 in science, below Slovenia, Singapore, and Hungary, among others.

- The child poverty rate hovers at over 15 percent, meaning that about one in six kids lives in poverty.

- Over 40 million Americans, including about 10 million children, have no health insurance.

My enemy search -- if successful -- would go a long way toward easing the consciences of our politicians who support the fat Pentagon budget, which diverts money from poor children, the environment, and other good things.

As of today, however, my search is not going well. So, I am open to any and all suggestions or leads that you might have. I am, of course on the lookout for the right headhunter, but none has materialized.

If you've got any killer ideas, please let me know.

Ben Cohen is co-founder of Ben and Jerry's and President of the Priorities Campaign

Answer 6

HOPE no terrorist attack occur in future but i ll guess it be in SRI LANKA war is on between GOVERMENT FORCES and LTTE

Answer 7

Don't know when, but I believe that the camel jocks
have it in for NY city. Maybe because it represents
freedom.

Answer 8

BY MY CALCULATIONS--FILBERT- SOUTH CAROLINA-IS THE NEXT LOGICAL POINT FOR A LARGE WIDESCALE TERRORIST ATTACH ON U.S. SOIL.THERE ARE LOTS OF PEACH STANDS AND WATERMELON STANDS-IF THEY TAKE OUT THOSE STANDS-WE ALL WILL FALL TO JIHAD!

Answer 9

Nobody knows this answer except for the bad guys planning it.

Answer 10

If we could answer that, then Bush would ask us. He would not be spending a bunch of money on Homeland Security, would he.

Why am I asking you this?