We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:47:28 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The last job I held before retiring was as a DOD WMD response planner. We supported large events like the Olympics, Summit of the 8, and did a lot of Y2K planning. We also conducted lots of 'what if' CPX's. My job was as Plans and Training Officer of the WMD cell. I and my compatriots spent a lot of time thinking about evil things to do to generate trouble. One of my favorite models for a terrorist disaster was Texas City. (If your browser loses it's forward/back buttons, just hit alt-left arrow to come back). According to Mansoor Hijaz,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:15:51 -0600 Perfumed Prince Report." This is not directly of this entry of yours, but I've posted this comment (below) at many weblogs within the past few days, and I will post it here as well. I notice that you have also had several entries on Wesley Clark... Last Thursday night, I posted six new entries at my blog - some of them are on the Iraq war situation. The last of the six, however, points out connections between Wesley Clark & the Clinton administration and Islamic terrorists. The foreign policy of Clinton and Clark was immoral, illegal, and horrific. Clinton was undoubtedly a very, very terrible president, and Clark would likely make a terrible president as well. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-293 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-293 Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:59:31 -0600 Any householder knows it is prudent to protect against pests, but eventually you have to destroy the nest. People say "We haven't caught bin Laden or Osama" but niether of those is strutting in front of a parade ground of subjects, crowing about their next victory over the Great Satan, either. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-287 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-287 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:36:58 -0600 There is so much wrong with articles like these. Just what the hell is; "than twenty-five times the threshold dose for evacuation"? I've been in Health Physics/Radiation Safety for YEARS and I'm supposed to believe there is a "Threshold dose for evacuation"? Please people....don't waste your time reading and taking to heart anything about radiation safety if the EPA has their stamp on it. Cripes..... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-252 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-252 Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:12:47 -0600 FAS report on dirty bombs. Ijaz even warns that a dirty bomb might be targeted on those canals. Yeah, that would really mess things up.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-242 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-242 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:04:40 -0600 The Grand Camp had 880 tons of ammonium nitrate onboard. AN has roughly the explosive power of TNT - somewhat less, so say about 750 tons TNT equivalent - about .75kt. Which is a bigger boom than some of our small nukes (you can find the Davy Crockett in the Arggghhh-ives somewhere, which could have a yield as low as .1 kt) However, as a result of this incident and others, there are considerably more safety restrictions in place on shipping this kind of stuff. I hav a brother-in-law who is an operations manager for a shipping company, and whenever they do an LPG tanker, the whole port shuts down, there are lots of escorts and security checks before it enters the port, and nothing moves until the LPG tanker is docked. Of course that is only in the US and some other major ports. Dunno how things are in the Suez Canal or some of the other bottlenecks Ijaz posits. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-240 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-240 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:09:11 -0600 Do you know if anyone has ever tried to figure out the energy release fron this disaster? Sounds like a small nuke to me. MonekyPants Imperial Lizardoid Trainer http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-239 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2003/10/more_from_the_dark_side_of_the_world_of_terror.html#comment-239 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:22:28 -0600