While I am no fan of Rep Peter “Grimace” King his statement over the high concern NY city officials have to a potential dirty bomb attack should not be taken lightly.
Is there a specific threat? No, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Let’s face obama’s weakness on national security is more or less setting us up for a major attack. It’s not a question of if but when.
As I have warned the next attack will be low-tech. That means conventional small arms, low yield explosives and unconventional tactics like we have seen in Kenya, Mumbai etc. Terrorists have demonstrated repeatedly, and just this week, they can run these small operations efficiently creating a lot of havoc in well populated areas/ events resulting in high body counts. So we won’t see anything like 9/11 but you can bet those images we have seen from attacks on malls, markets, mosques, businesses etc are highly possible.
The 4th of July weekend is an opportune time to launch such an attack, possibly coordinated in multiple cities. Morton Storm agrees with the chances of an attack because it’s Ramadan, terrorist leaders have been calling for attacks and a national holiday. The environment is right but do they have the stones to do it? With the border being wide open God only knows who has crossed over and with what.
Stay alert but enjoy yourselves this weekend if you still celebrate the Fourth; we have number of reasons not to but that is for another post…