Threat Assessment
November, 2007
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TREAT INEPT TERROR ATTACKS LIKE GRAVE THREATS. A LOOK AT IRA BOMBINGS PROVIDES PERSPECTIVEThe destructive potential of car bombs rigged in Glasgow and London this past summer was described in hyperbolic language: "maximum damage," "carnage," "slaughter" and "horror." But gasoline and nails used in such rudimentary bombs would not have caused widespread damage even if they had all gone off. A comparison of these recent attempts to the...
