Creative Terror

Again. This time most creatively. Using a truck is low tech and brilliant. I am surprised this has not been tried before. I wonder what looms next?

Back in the 1990's, when this was just a theoretical exercise, my Capital Hill friends and I used to theorize about how one could commit a mass casualty attack on Congress.

We determined it was pretty easy. Get a job on the Hill. Difficult but not impossible. Even a job in the massive service employee work force would do. The House side had a big parking garage. There was no inspection before entering. Simply fill your trunk with weapons and ammo.

Now, even back then the Hill had pretty good security. While a public building that anyone could enter, those entrances had metal detectors and three or four Capital Cops. There were also Capital Cops conducting random patrols throughout. So after the shooting began it would not be long before our terrorist was up against armed police. One would want to conduct this attack with two or three other terrorists.

Not impossible to work out, at least back in the 1990's.

Of course, in 1994 Tom Clancy published Debt of Honor, which ends with a Japanese airline pilot Kamikazing Capital Hill.

Oh, how they laughed at that one.

So my little plot ain't so far fetched is it.

During the Cold War the Pentagon used to convene meetings of Hollywood types to dream up war scenarios, see Twilight Zone at the Pentagon.

After 9-11 they did the same. You want to tell me Michael Mann couldn't come up with the most spectacular terrorist attack ever?