Critical Infrastructure Valued Target by Muslims
The money being spent by Homeland Security and law enforcement to track terrorists that want to harm our nation is paying off. The plot to blow up JFK airport in New York City was likely not to succeed, but it clearly demonstrates the motives and targets of Muslim terrorists that want to kill us.
Our critical infrastructure has mostly been identified by now by Homeland Security and is under closer scrutiny for threats.
Muslim Pipeline Bombers Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir
From the AP here:
Until a suspected terrorist plot was revealed, few people even knew there was a pipeline of highly combustible jet fuel snaking beneath the nation’s largest city.
Police were aware that the fuel system feeding John F. Kennedy International Airport posed a risk well before investigators unearthed an alleged conspiracy by a homegrown Muslim terror cell to blow it up, with the goal of killing thousands of people and inflicting major damage on the U.S. economy.
The pipeline system targeted by the suspects in the latest case is huge, winding its way through all corners of the city. It is part of a national pipeline network run by Buckeye Partners LP (BPL) that serves major airports in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Pennsylvania, among other locations. The network also delivers jet fuel to military bases.
In a criminal complaint outlining the allegations, one suspect is quoted as saying he hoped it would “cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks,” torching the airport, killing several thousand people and destroying parts of New York’s borough of Queens, where the pipeline route is marked by warning signs.
The pipeline was designed to shut off when it detects heat, a feature that would have prevented the chain-reaction explosion that the plotters allegedly envisioned, authorities said. And it would have been virtually impossible to get inside the airport to do the kind of damage they planned.
Even if the suspects had succeeded in detonating a bomb, McCann said, there “would have been some damage and it would have been terrible. But would the whole thing have gone up? No.”
The pipeline network would not have exploded all at once. All fuel needs a large supply of oxygen for it to combust. At worst flames may have erupted from a few breaks, but it would not have caused the destruction those stupid Muslims were hoping for.
My own community has a huge pipeline that runs from Manassas all the way across the Potomac River and into Maryland. You can see it on Live.com here. Its the swatch of green grass. Buried beneath is a natural gas pipeline that feeds the region. It is patrolled daily from the air by civil air patrol searching for anything out of the ordinary.
The Supply Chain Information Sharing and Analysis Center helps secure against threats to critical pipelines.
