In other words, leaving casualties aside, they are following a model they learned from strategic air campaigns, which is to go after key social systems and shut them down. Key social systems include the power system, from refineries to power plants, land transport, including critical bridges and tunnels and maritime systems such as ports. Attack methods may include destroying refineries with multiple truck bombs, using barges loaded with explosives to destroy critical bridges during rush hour or sinking oil tankers in harbor channels, releasing massive oil spills.

STRATFOR

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), October 08, 2001

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-- Lars (lars@indy.net), October 08, 2001.

I know Osama, let's blow-up the GW bridge at rush-hour! Wouldn't that make great TV? Wouldn't that dramatize our righteousness? Wouldn't that humble the Great Satan?

Allah the Beneficient!

-- (Abdulla el Raghead @ Camp.Runamok), October 08, 2001.

That is one sobering piece from STRATFOR, Lars. The logic cuts like a knife. Ouch!

Soon come.

-- Rich (living_in_interesting_times@hotmail.com), October 08, 2001.

The only objection that I had to the piece was their identification of Afghanistan as the enemy. As Anita points out in another thread, the enemy is a world network, not only BL or Taliban.

Conspiracy buffs must love it. Our enemy is indeed a conspiracy. Trouble is, it is not the conspiracy that they heretofor identified.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), October 08, 2001.

Lars,

Conspiracy buffs must love it.

Yeah, irony sucks sometimes, doesn't it? :)

-- Stephen M. Poole (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), October 08, 2001.