Actually, watching ABC news yesterday evening, I was surprised how little play they gave this NPP attack scare angle -- several other types of potential terrorist targets were mentioned, most prominently large hydro dams in the western US.
( Personally, I would rather take my chance down-wind from an NPP attacked by terrorists, than downstream from a dam attacked by terrorists -- even though neither is susceptible to destruction by airliner impacts.... hmmm -- maybe we could suggest that they attack a volcano, in the hope of triggering a Mt. St. Helen's-type of eruption.... no doubt Energy Probe and other antis could convince them & the media of this - like when they told the media that France's nuke tests were causing earthquakes all around the Pacific rim....)
Jaro
PS. Adam, I think you meant to say "incite", not "insight".
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam McLean [mailto:adam.mclean@utoronto.ca]
Sent: Friday February 01, 2002 1:28 AM
To: Canadian Nuclear Discussion List
Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] If you were a terrorist, what would you say to scare Americans?
Posted as the lead story on YAHOO.com, quoted from Reuters News Service,
January 31, 2002 and at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Terrorism
If you were an al-Qaida terrorist, the faction crumbling around you, US
operatives among you, 100's of your friends locked up for good and being
shipped off to Cuba, you leader likely dead, not by American bullets but
simply bad health...
What would you say to continue to insight terror in Americans?
<snip>
Nuke Plants Warned After Attack Tip
Thu Jan 31, 5:48 PM ET
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Acting on a tip from an al-Qaida operative, the
government alerted nuclear power plants last week that terrorists may be
planning an airplane attack on a power reactor, government officials
said Thursday.