THE DAILY BLADE: The Ultimate Terror Attack
Want to know how Daniel Pipes' “Sudden jihad syndrome” on a mass scale would play out here in the U.S.? Lt. Col. (Ret) Dave Grossman, a specialist in the study of the psychology of killing ('killology”), describes it in this post for the Human Events Guns & Patriots blog:
I have been told (by those conducting interviews with captured enemy combatants) that when we ask them "What is coming next?" they sometimes refer to the "Perfect Day." …
The Sepoy Mutiny in India, in 1857, is an example of a "Perfect Day." This was a spontaneous uprising by Muslims (and Hindus), with everyone giving the British their "best shot." Nannies killed the kids, cooks poisoned the food, and shop owners murdered the British ladies as they came into the shop. And soldiers (sometimes complete units) killed their British officers and then used their weapons to attack the British. …
In their dreams and fond imaginations, this is what will happen across all of the "Crusader nations" who are in Afghanistan. Pick a day, and everyone gives it their best shot. If just one-in-a-thousand of the Islamic people in our nations answer the call to Jihad, it will still be thousands of attackers ...
The key question we should ask is, "Why don't they do this to Israel?" And the answer is that the terrorists would love to! But, Israel is an armed society. The terrorist is largely deterred from this action by Israel's level of preparation. …
In particular, we can see that states like Illinois, and Wisconsin (the only two states with absolutely no concealed carry for anyone, anyhow, ever), or California, Massachusetts, and others (with very stringent and limited concealed carry laws) are the most likely targets for this kind of attack.
Don’t think it can’t happen. Already, scarcely a news cycle goes by without word of a nascent homegrown terror plot being thwarted or a report on the progress of a terror trial. Case in point: Somali-born cab driver Sharif Ahmed Nour, 41, was charged with possession of prohibited weapons after a bomb squad removed suspicious materials from his apartment, The Dallas Morning News reports:
Irving firefighters found the materials after extinguishing a small fire at Nour's home in the 3600 block of Block Drive, near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force assisted in the investigation.
The materials were ultimately determined not to be an imminent threat.
The news report doesn’t say what caused the fire and what could have happened had the suspicious (but as yet to be described by law enforcement) material ignited.
Let’s hope this isn’t another terror plot that was nipped in the bud, but a harmless misunderstanding – the “suspicious material” could be paint thinner or weed killer or any number of products you keep under the kitchen sink or in your tool shed. But imagine the terror and economic impact if, without communicating with one another, one or two Muslim cab drivers stationed at airports in NYC, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando and Washington, D.C. spontaneously decided to place bombs in their vehicles or to deliberately drive them into oncoming traffic - say, right into the path of school buses - on September 11, 2011. Just a handful of jihadis could murder dozens of innocent men, women and children.
And for al Qaeda, it would be a perfect day.
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