Be prepared
In case you haven’t heard, the planes at the Libyan airport went missing. And a significant date is one week away. And Jihad Joe likes to do things on that date. I’m not convinced that something is going to happen but on 9/10, I’ll make sure all the vehicles are fueled; all the electronic gizmos are charged; that I got some cash from the bank; and I won’t travel.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Just an FYI, one of your advertisers is using that goddamned adverstitial service that redirects the whole page. Didn’t catch which one, I was too irritated at the time.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:21 pm
Hmm. we must find out who
September 4th, 2014 at 10:25 pm
>and I won’t travel.
And you don’t live anywhere near DC or NYC.
That being said, I would be extremely surprised if stolen commercial airliners could be flown from the middle east to attack the US east coast. That would take some doing.
Maybe somehow shoot down commercial flights in the middle of the Atlantic without anyone noticing, while the jihad planes, launched from an undisclosed location take their place, counterfeit their transponders, and only deviate from their planned routes at the last moment of the attack? I don’t even know if that’s even possible.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:37 pm
I’m far, far more worried about our wide-open borders making us vulnerable to terrorism than some stolen airliners. God forbid I’m wrong, but I think the use of airliners as suicide missiles was a one-time trick. Conventional explosives laced with radioactive waste and detonated simultaneously in multiple truck bombings all around the country? Easily accomplished, effing terrifying, and completely side-steps our air security. It’s what I’d do, were I a jihadist looking to maximize returns on effort.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:42 pm
also, layers of editing: “Any stolen aircraft from Libya would unlikely penetrate post-9/11 U.S. air defense and security measures,” Get it together, USAtoday.
September 5th, 2014 at 1:11 am
Hmm. we must find out who
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September 5th, 2014 at 2:55 am
Regarding the terrorism threat, there sure has been a lot of chatter. Not by the terrorists, by the MEDIA. Including quite a few stories about Vegas.
I guess my exile to California is well timed.
September 5th, 2014 at 8:46 am
I’d echo Andrew’s concerns, though I think that the source is as likely to be home grown as someone who came over one of the borders.
Remember those texts, last month, of phones with the ISIS flag on a cell phone in front of the White House and in Chicago which said something to the effect of “We are Here. Soon.” Wouldn’t surprise me if the guys behind that are planning something.
Preparation is probably prudent.
September 5th, 2014 at 8:59 am
Exercise your CCL. Load hollow points. Aim at center-of-mass.
September 5th, 2014 at 9:34 am
While you aren’t traveling and your vehicle is parked outside, sit down on your bulging wallet with an electronic gizmo and read “By Order of the President” by WEB Griffin.
It is a fictional account of the foiling of a terrorist plot to use a stolen airplane to attack the US.
Let’s hope truth isn’t any stranger than such fiction.
September 5th, 2014 at 9:55 am
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September 5th, 2014 at 11:52 am
This might help.
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2014/02/ad2store-redirections-the-latest-annoyance-for-mobile-users/
September 5th, 2014 at 1:00 pm
>…while the jihad planes, launched from an undisclosed location take their place, counterfeit their transponders, and only deviate from their planned routes at the last moment of the attack?
You know, if you really wanted write some crazy conspiracy stuff you could weave a story that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a dress reversal to see how the world tracked a hijacked airliner.
If that crazy theory shows up on inphony-wars or what-teh-really-happened, remember you read it here first.
September 5th, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Just a random thought…
How much of the radar coverage in the USA is done by actual skin-painting the targets with RF energy? I seem to recall that most air traffic control information comes from information returned by their transponders.
Exactly how long would it take to figure out an aircraft at FL350 cruising at Mach 0.78 doesn’t have a transponder at all?
September 5th, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Not long at FL350. Considerably longer at 3000ft agl:
http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~jzhang/radcov.html
September 5th, 2014 at 2:45 pm
That whole “missing aircraft from Libya” meme has been pretty thoroughly discredited; see here:
http://www.nycaviation.com/2014/09/11-missing-aircraft-libya-truly-threatening-911-repeat/#.VAoDPvmE1lT
this is a spread sheet of all the aircraft known to be at Benghazi air port and their condition:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J1ztEYxy2EfUTzPWZrEGkfIBMHR2nyheR1to7JoEvHw/edit#gid=0
This doesn’t mean no threat exists, but the idea of multiple commercial aircraft being available for a jihadist attack just isn’t supportable from the known facts.
All of your preps you suggest are a good idea just on general principle, of course.
September 5th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
The story about the missing Libyan airliners needs to die. First, the logistics of stealing those airplanes to begin with would be huge. Some were prop jobs (ATR twin engine) which would be easier to pilot. The CRJ jets could be stolen by someone with a decent amount of flight training. The rest were A320’s (airbus’s version of the 737) and one larger A330. Just to steal those, you need capable pilots with time in those particular aircraft.
Now, let’s say you pull that off. Now, you’ve got to find somewhere to hide 11 stolen aircraft. With enough runway for the larger A320’s and A330.
Okay, let’s say you did that.
Now, you want to fly them across and kill some infidels! Praise Allah!
Wait.
Only 1….ONE of those aircraft is capable of the flight from Africa to the US. The A330. You might make it in the A320’s if…and this is a giant &%#(#) if….if they are configured in such a way for long range flight, stripped of anything and everything (like seats). But you’d need Allah to be on your side. No deviations for weather, no delays, and no headwinds. And a Metric ton of luck.
Oh, and let’s discuss the trans-Atlantic flight, shall we?
1) you’re not flying “under the radar”. First, there is no such thing. US air defense radar will pick up an A320 or A330 at anything but about wave top level. The skill required to fly an airplane that size that low for that long….well, let’s just say *&%^#@^#$ IMPOSSIBLE. And let’s discuss Fuel. Air is denser at the lower altitude. You’ll burn through fuel at an exponentially higher rate. IMPOSSIBLE.
2) Fly across disguised as an airliner/charter/cargo plane? Okay. Maybe. But you’ll need a metric ton of faked documents from your point of origin. And filing an international flight plan isn’t simple. And navigating a modern Airbus across the Atlantic? You WILL need an experienced air crew. You’re not pulling that off with simulator time, or with shitty training like the 9/11 hijackers got.
No, this story needs to die because at most, the simpler of the airplanes will turn up on the black market for smuggling around Africa and the Middle East. More than likely, these airplanes were destroyed or tore apart for scrap.
September 5th, 2014 at 3:17 pm
David Liddy has it.
The Atlantic and Pacific essentially insulate us from any realistic threat of “surprise” attack using resources from outside the US. The Chicoms can’t get here to invade, neither could the Nazis or Soviets at their heights in actual “invasion” quantities.
Let’s focus on realistically possible threats, not Red Dawn fantasies.
September 5th, 2014 at 5:40 pm
I have some years of experience with US ADIZ operations and capabilities. This scenario is an absolute non starter.
September 5th, 2014 at 6:30 pm
The US unquestionably has enough air defense radars to track any rogue aircraft. The very reason the Malaysian airlines flight could disappear was they were in a region of the world with air defense systems of rather limited coverage.
September 5th, 2014 at 6:41 pm
Our government leaves our borders open refusing its Constitutional duty to”protect the States against invasion”, so why should we assume it would do the same against invasion by air?
September 5th, 2014 at 6:53 pm
Good point, Matthew, in comment 18. The Chicoms, Nazis and Soviets could not invade, but the 9-11 hi jackers succeeded because they were allowed to enter and stay; a policy which did and has been allowed to continue with open borders to aid and abet. Article III, Section 3 of our Constitution defines that as “treason”.
September 5th, 2014 at 6:54 pm
It’s as though I can’t take things in the press at face value.
September 6th, 2014 at 11:18 am
Whether by use of a plane, or by other methods, the attacks will come. Of the many possibilities, an attack on land transportation systems might do us the most damage in the long term. Attacks on Mississippi River bridges, or on rail switching yards in Kansas City or Chicago, or on oil pipelines; any could cause shortages, market disruptions, and panic. Take all the precautions mentioned above and don’t stop with just those.
September 6th, 2014 at 11:32 am
It is being reported at theBlaze.com on a fact check that the planes or total planes is incorrect.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/05/rumor-check-are-nearly-a-dozen-commercial-jetliners-really-missing-from-libyan-airport/
September 6th, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Beaumont, they could do that, but I think they won’t. Because the people in charge of the terrorists are military amateurs.
The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon, and the beheadings of the journalists, and all the other atrocities, they were fundamentally media events the Islamists were using to intimidate their chosen enemy and spur fundraising and recruiting. Not to detract from the evil required to conceive and execute them, but they were symbolic acts.
A professional warfighter wouldn’t have attacked landmarks. If you wanted to get ALL of NYC, not just its tallest building, what you’d attack is something everyone needs: the electricity. You don’t even have to be in NYC to do that. All its power comes from somewhere else. You just have to wreck it in a way that can’t be fixed for, say, two weeks. Two weeks without light and heat, perhaps in the middle of winter. Two weeks without refrigeration, and just when you realize that, also two weeks without the power to cook the otherwise inedible food that’s on hand. Maybe ten days without communications when the cell tower backup generators run out of fuel, but everyone’s phone is dead in a day. Two weeks without functioning security systems. Two weeks without pumps to bring in fresh water and get the sewage out. Two weeks without the subways and electric trains or the fuel pumps to fill cars. And all you’d have to do is do simultaneous attacks in a dozen unmanned places, wrecking old transmission and transformer infrastructure that can’t be replaced in a hurry… not all of them at once, anyway. Just wreck more major things than they have spares for those things, and the rest will collapse on its own. And the bad guys would probably get away in the chaos, too.
But I think that’s what these guys WON’T do. What they want to do is kill us or enslave us, and I’m pretty sure they want to do it with their own hands whenever possible. A sawn-off head recruits more idiot idle boys than a dead city seen from afar.
September 7th, 2014 at 2:12 pm
Two weeks without power would be much more effective during the winter than during the temperate fall following 9/11. Yes, food would be a crisis, but food + freezing would be devastating. Either they’re not very strategically bright, or they’re just making a show of it and don’t want to hurt us badly enough that we’ll commit to destroy them. You saw how we reacted to the last attack. What worries me most is the open borders thing. Enemies are among us.