Associated Press- March 16, 2005, 5:28 AM EST
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ats-ap_us10mar16,0,5073076.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlinesWASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Department officials are preparing a report that catalogues a dozen ways terrorists might strike in the United States in
an effort to get state and local authorities thinking about ways to block them.
The department has been
working for a year on a National Planning Scenarios plan that outlines a number of plausible attacks -- including by nerve gas, anthrax, pneumonic plague and truck bomb.
The report,
still confidential, was requested by a presidential directive in December 2003 and will be made public in upcoming months, Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said Tuesday.
>>>>. . . a nuclear bomb, an exploding liquid chlorine tank or a widespread and prolonged aerosol anthrax spray ranked among the most devastating attacks outlined in the report, Roehrkasse said.
So, the 'experts' at Homeland Security, with all of the millions of dollars spent on feathering their bureaucracy (and a minuscule allocated to the states and cities), spent a year coming up with these scenarios (didn't plan to let us know about their concerns for months to come), and offers no solutions or defenses in their report. They just want to get us thinking. (Duct tape?)
Without solutions or defenses this exercise is just a continuation of the Bush administration's campaign of fear. Or do they view the projected lives lost as mere collateral damage? What do you bet they've already formulated a plan to protect the Executive and a select group of federal and elected officials?