| We have recently heard of International Terrorists | | | | say rail, freeway or highway and water supplies |
| Cells attacking Oil Refineries. We know they have an | | | | comes thru a mountain pass and downwind is a town |
| affection for commuter trains, ferries, buses, | | | | in a valley." |
| embassies, airliners and hotels. What about our nation's | | | | Indeed these are very good points and perhaps that |
| railways in the United States; commuter trains are far | | | | might be the target of international terrorists and there |
| and few between and we really do not use them | | | | are only a handful of places like that I know about, so |
| much in the States, but what about cargo trains? We | | | | we could secure such locations fairly easy. One thing |
| ship a lot by train in the United States. It is a big country | | | | that concerns me is the trains coming from Mexico to |
| and it makes sense for us to maximize our railways, | | | | the US. Or a cargo container piggy-back scenario |
| but does this make it an international terrorist target? | | | | dropped at Delta Port in British Columbia running thru |
| This subject was recently brought up by an online think | | | | the Canadian Rockies and down into the upper |
| tank as one think tanker asked the question; "Are our | | | | Midwest United States on the Canadian Rail Road. |
| railways and rail yards safe?" The group decided that | | | | What if the International Terrorists then set off a |
| this was indeed a worthy topic and the subject | | | | nuclear detonation in mid Downtown Chicago for |
| needed to be addressed and one member said; | | | | maximum impact. But planning all that without tipping |
| "Sure we could hypothesize on this I suppose, there | | | | someone off would be a tough one even for a |
| are lots of ways one might go about this. If we are | | | | close-knit group like these International Terrorists. |
| concerned and looking at these things, we need to | | | | Remember there is always someone going to ask a |
| look for the multiplier affects, where pipelines cross, rail | | | | question somewhere along the line. And let's hope the |
| bridges, natural gas lines, major Interstates with choke | | | | FBI follows up on tips like someone is learning how to |
| points, you just mentioned one or perhaps water | | | | fly but does not want to learn how to land next time? |
| supplies or an all in one, where everything; that is to | | | | Dah? We should consider this in 2006. |