Wildfires in Greece could be terrorism

[suzzer99]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html

I wonder if this is a warmup for hitting the US West. I've always thought that would be such an easy way to wreak a lot of havoc with very little effort. That and a DC-sniper style attack on LA. To me it seems fairly obvious that Al Qaeda is purposely not targeting the US mainland right now. We're so target rich.

[MarkD]

I am always surprised by the paranoia.

[TheRedRocket]

wildfires would make a pour choice for a terrorist strike because they are common enough that they do NOT strike fear into anyone nor do they result in the type of spectacular damage that blowing things up does.

[suzzer99]

Yeah but they cost billions in damages and wreak havoc for a while. And that's just the natural and accidentally set ones. Imagine what a coordinated effort could do.

[Jurollo]

[ QUOTE ]
wildfires would make a pour choice for a terrorist strike because they are common enough that they do NOT strike fear into anyone nor do they result in the type of spectacular damage that blowing things up does.

[/ QUOTE ]

Was this said on purpose? Great pun if so.

[TheRedRocket]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
wildfires would make a pour choice for a terrorist strike because they are common enough that they do NOT strike fear into anyone nor do they result in the type of spectacular damage that blowing things up does.

[/ QUOTE ]

Was this said on purpose? Great pun if so.

[/ QUOTE ]

of course!

[Taso]

[ QUOTE ]
Yeah but they cost billions in damages and wreak havoc for a while. And that's just the natural and accidentally set ones. Imagine what a coordinated effort could do.

[/ QUOTE ]


But that isn't really too terrifying. A lot of terrorism is about sending a message. We have massive wildfires in the USA all the time, lose 100's of thousands of acres , not really a great statement.