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Officials in America and Lebanon say that they have disrupted a plot by foreign terrorists to attack New York’s transport network.
Infidels! You and our Godless physics are no match for our blessed martyrs of Islam!
The New York Daily News reported that the scheme was to blow up the Holland Tunnel, the southernmost link between Manhattan and New Jersey, with the aim of causing a torrent of water to shoot out and flood New York’s financial district. Sources told the newspaper that the terrorists wanted to drown the area, as New Orleans was inundated by Hurricane Katrina.
The Daily News pointed out that as all of lower Manhattan is above the water level, it is unclear how flooding a tunnel could have affected higher ground.
There's something fishy about these recent terrorist arrests. Last week there was a cult of black Jewish Christians with delusions of attacking Sears Tower. This week it's an internet chat conspiracy led by a man who couldn't make the cut in an elementary school science fair.
This is not to deny that there are Islamofascist whack jobs our there who want to kill Americans. It just seems strange that most of the conspirators arrrested so far seem about as threatening as the Seven Dwarfs.
7.7.06 21:51
