Where will the terrorists strike next?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

There's billions of dollars out there for fighting terrorism, and all sorts of people, crooks mostly, are giddy about it.

Now terrorism isn't a problem you can solve by throwing money at it. But then again it pays to remember that for the want of some deadlocks on cockpit doors the WTC collapsed.

And deadlocks go for thirty bucks down at Home Depot.

Now the question presents itself- where should all that money be allocated? The United States Government, in its infinite wisdom, has come up with a "formula" for deciding just that. It takes into account all sorts of factors like population and number of monuments, and figures out potential terrorist targets. So the government took this formula and fed all their data into a computer, carried the five, laundered the contributions, and dotted their i's. And it turned out the answer was: a petting zoo in Indiana. The government then awarded millions of dollars to protect Indianan petting zoos. It is currently spending trillions of dollars building an even bigger computer to figure out what the question was in the first place.

Now the thing about formulas is this- if you come up with a formula and the results don't make any fucking sense, there's probably something wrong with the formula. So I'm going to ask what no American should ever ask of another American, we need to use our critical thinking skills. Pretend you're a terrorist. Go ahead. You hate America for her Freedoms and her Bountiful Natural Splendor. But there's only so many monuments a fellow can homicide bomb. Which target would take priority on your list?

[corkhead]

1. Iran, by the terrorists in Washington

[jaysunb]

2. Which ones ??

:evilfrown:

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. Crawford TX, if there's an Allah... n/m

[Virginia Dare]

4. The buffalo roaming around Dick Cheney's house...n/t

[lectrobyte]

5. It depends on which groups of terrorists you are considering.

Al Quaeda's been pretty quiet lately. That bunch that shock-and-awe'd Iraq is still horny for Iran from what I can see.

[Blue_Tires]

6. america hater!!!!!!

[tocqueville]

7. the next hotspot will be in Africa

for two reasons :

- the situation in Sudan/Darfur and in Somalia is "perfect" for clashes between Western forces and Islamist militants
- "Al Quaeda" is setting up training camps (the ones they lost in Afghanistan) in the sub-saharan region.

This according to recent interviews with French intelligence experts.

It's not likely that "Al Quaeda" strikes in the US (they don't have the resources) but a "major" strike could happen in Europe or even more likely in Arab countries (like hurting the Saudi oil).

That was the security assessment done last Monday on French TV by DGSE sources or officials.

France is on orange level. But remember that there is here a "crimson" level, above the red level. This last level means that the strike is immediate or is happening and emergency is declared. A crimson level would be for example the level during the 9/11 attacks.