majik

I found this online this morning and found it interesting. I thought I would share:

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335500,00.html

Foiled Terror Plots Against America Since 9/11
Thursday, September 11, 2008
By Joseph Abrams and Jonathan Passantino

The following is a list of known terror plots thwarted by the U.S. government since Sept. 11, 2001.

• December 2001, Richard Reid: British citizen attempted to ignite shoe bomb on flight from Paris to Miami.

• May 2002, Jose Padilla: American citizen accused of seeking radioactive-laced "dirty bomb" to use in an attack against Amrica. Padilla was convicted of conspiracy in August, 2007.

• September 2002, Lackawanna Six: American citizens of Yemeni origin convicted of supporting Al Qaeda after attending jihadist camp in Pakistan. Five of six were from Lackawanna, N.Y.

• Click to view photos of suspected terrorists and attack sites.

• May 2003, Iyman Faris: American citizen charged with plotting to use blowtorches to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge.

• June 2003, Virginia Jihad Network: Eleven men from Alexandria, Va., trained for jihad against American soldiers, convicted of violating the Neutrality Act, conspiracy.

• August 2004, Dhiren Barot: Indian-born leader of terror cell plotted bombings on financial centers (see additional images).

• August 2004, James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj: Sought to plant bomb at New York's Penn Station during the Republican National Convention.

• August 2004, Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain: Plotted to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat on American soil.

• June 2005, Father and son Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat: Son convicted of attending terrorist training camp in Pakistan; father convicted of customs violation.

• August 2005, Kevin James, Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson and Hammad Riaz Samana: Los Angeles homegrown terrorists who plotted to attack National Guard, LAX, two synagogues and Israeli consulate.

• December 2005, Michael Reynolds: Plotted to blow up natural gas refinery in Wyoming, the Transcontinental Pipeline, and a refinery in New Jersey. Reynolds was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

• February 2006, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Zand Wassim Mazloum: Accused of providing material support to terrorists, making bombs for use in Iraq.

• April 2006, Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee: Cased and videotaped the Capitol and World Bank for a terrorist organization.

• June 2006, Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augstine: Accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower.

• July 2006, Assem Hammoud: Accused of plotting to bomb New York City train tunnels.

• August 2006, Liquid Explosives Plot: Thwarted plot to explode ten airliners over the United States.

• March 2007, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Mastermind of Sept. 11 and author of numerous plots confessed in court in March 2007 to planning to destroy skyscrapers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Mohammedalso plotted to assassinate Pope John Paul II and former President Bill Clinton.

• May 2007, Fort Dix Plot: Six men accused of plotting to attack Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. The plan included attacking and killing soldiers using assault rifles and grenades.

• June 2007, JFK Plot: Four men are accused of plotting to blow up fuel arteries that run through residential neighborhoods at JFK Airport in New York.

• September 2007, German authorities disrupt a terrorist cell that was planning attacks on military installations and facilities used by Americans in Germany. The Germans arrested three suspected members of the Islamic Jihad Union, a group that has links to Al Qaeda and supports Al Qaeda's global jihadist agenda.

SOCKS_old

wow.. amazing about some of the plots to do things..

this one caught me funny though


what a moron.. could you imagine how many blow torches it would take to cut enough steel to collapse that bridge.. and when someone walks by and see's this idiot standing, or repelling from the bridge with a blow torch, don't ya think they would be like WTF?!!

burning steel causes smoke... did he/they not consider that?

i can just picture this tool with a ACE hardware special propane torch tryin to cut down the bridge. lmao.gif lmao.gif

REDZMAN

Remember SOCKS, you don't need to cut it, just heat it up enough to weaken the metal, say right around rush our.

9/11 taught a lot of folks that knew nothing about the mechanics of materials how to take down a big building without explosives. Works the same here. The buildings didn't fall because of the metal being melted, they got hot enough to lose a majority of it's strength, and it collapsed.

radu_rd2

LOL, you'd still need a freaking army of guys with blowtorches to heat up enough metal at the same time

majik

Eh... it's possible.

It's an old bridge and needs to be repaired. Park a construction looking truck under it, climb up the bridge, wear white overalls with a white hat, and blow away. I would be surprised if somebody DID call.

Something I thought about while writing this, and I almost hate to suggest it...
High-Rise window washers. They could place a bomb on different corners of the building, half way up, and nobody would ever know. Would you notice a 10" x 10" package 30 stories up?

HyundaiKitCoupe

you always post up some interesting reads.

there were also embassy and hotel bombings in the Middle East.

...and let's not forget about the British UFO hacker who hacked into U.S. Dept. of Defense files, downloaded photographs of UFO's, and is now imprisoned at Guantanamo. Some terrorist of him. Makes you wonder...

Whiplash

Everyone is out to get america.

StrikeEagle

Thanks for posting that Majik. We hear all the time of all the bad things that happened, but I've never heard of any of those on the mainstream media. Why wouldn't Americans want to know what their country is doing right?

Tibbychick

^You just gotta know where to look.

BTW that list left out one major terror plot: Harold and Kumar's plot to blow up a plane with a bong...they went to Guantanamo for that.

Rixshark

I would have made sure that blowtorch idea made it into mainstream.

But seriously....if you have the capability of getting under the bridge and sitting there all day with an army of guys with blowtorches....why not just plant a few dozen charges instead.....You're less likely to get killed when that thing goes down.... lmao.gif