War on Terror, New Front, New Foes, New Tactics
Once again we Americans seem to be ignoring the biggest and most important story of our age the war on terror. In particular our media is ignoring the frightening new direction the Terror War is taking on the Russian Front.
Late last week the city of Nalchik in the Kabardin-Balkar Autonomious Republic near Russia's border with the Republic of Georgia was transformed into the Terror War's new front lines. A force of around 150 armed terrorists entered the city and proceeded to wreck havoc for several hours until troops could arrive and wipe them out.
There are several frightening aspects to this scenario, first it is an indication that Russia maybe loosing control of its border regions. The slaughter in Chechnya was bad enough but this is worse. If Russia looses control of Central Asia and the Caucacus we could see more Afghanistan style breeding grounds for terrorism. This is a truly frightening prospect because those regions contain lots of heavy industry and stockpiles of weaponry left over from the Soviet era. So the terrorists would have both existing weapons and the capacity to create more. There are also maybe nuclear materials, missile bases and even facilities to manufacture nuclear, biological or chemical weapons in those areas or worse existing stockpiles of such weapons terrorists could easily seize.
This nightmare is made worse by the fact that the terrorists weren't imported Chechyn or Al Qaeda fighters they were local tribesmen members of a would be called the Yurmak who are being financed by outside forces. The Kremlin keeps claiming it has destroyed the Yurmak but the Yurmak keeps popping up again. Sound familiar. So this could herald the beginning of a large scale war in the Caucuses and Central Asia that could draw in American forces. US forces are already operating in Georgia just across the border from Nal'Chick. Not to mention China which is already plagued by Islamic insurgents.
The tactics used by these terrorists should also raise concern instead of suicide bombing or bombing they displayed a potentially far more deadly and destructive tactic. They simply used military weaponry to wage war on unarmed civilians according to media accounts the terrorists simply walked around town with rifles and missile launchers shooting at people or holed up in buildings and started blasting away at the streets. Some of them threw satchel bombs at the local KGB headquarters they failed to get in but they did damage.
The scary thing about this scenario is that it would be one of the most effective methods of terror attack on America. What I like to call Invasion USA, after a disturbingly prophetic B Chuck Norris action picture of the mid 1980s. A group of terrorists finds a way to get to America maybe they come by ship or walk in from Mexico or buy some fake visas. They get here and rendezvouses.
Then instead of building bombs they arm themselves, perhaps with weapons from gun stores, weapons they brought, or weaponry looted from some National Guard arsenal. Then they choose some average American city, say Las Vegas, simply drive into town and start shooting everything and everybody in sight. Imagine the havoc they could wreck sitting in the back of a pick up driving up and down the streets blasting away at pedestrians and store fronts. Or walk into public buildings like casinos, churchs, schools and city hall and start shooting people inside.
The police would probably be helpless to deal with such a situation they're scattered all over town and not organized or armed for combat. Likewise with the National Guard it'd take hours to round them up and get them in the field.
That leaves the regular military, they're either deployed overseas or training at bases in remote rural areas. San Diego is the only American city I can think with large active military units stationed in town. Even when the Army or Marines came in it'd probably be by helicopter, choppers are vulnerable to small arms fire and surface to air missiles. So infantry men might have to land on the outskirts of town and fight their way in leaving civilians in the crossfire. This could result in high casualties because the troops wouldn't have armored vehicles to protect them. So it would probably take the military several hours to sufficient forces to a besieged city, giving the terrorists plenty of time to jump in the car and drive to the next town.
I wonder are our governments prepared for Invasion USA? Even though it's far more likely than a dirty bomb or a madman with a vial of germs. I imagine not.
So the Terror War has taken a disturbing new turn the question is are we ready to deal with it.
Late last week the city of Nalchik in the Kabardin-Balkar Autonomious Republic near Russia's border with the Republic of Georgia was transformed into the Terror War's new front lines. A force of around 150 armed terrorists entered the city and proceeded to wreck havoc for several hours until troops could arrive and wipe them out.
There are several frightening aspects to this scenario, first it is an indication that Russia maybe loosing control of its border regions. The slaughter in Chechnya was bad enough but this is worse. If Russia looses control of Central Asia and the Caucacus we could see more Afghanistan style breeding grounds for terrorism. This is a truly frightening prospect because those regions contain lots of heavy industry and stockpiles of weaponry left over from the Soviet era. So the terrorists would have both existing weapons and the capacity to create more. There are also maybe nuclear materials, missile bases and even facilities to manufacture nuclear, biological or chemical weapons in those areas or worse existing stockpiles of such weapons terrorists could easily seize.
This nightmare is made worse by the fact that the terrorists weren't imported Chechyn or Al Qaeda fighters they were local tribesmen members of a would be called the Yurmak who are being financed by outside forces. The Kremlin keeps claiming it has destroyed the Yurmak but the Yurmak keeps popping up again. Sound familiar. So this could herald the beginning of a large scale war in the Caucuses and Central Asia that could draw in American forces. US forces are already operating in Georgia just across the border from Nal'Chick. Not to mention China which is already plagued by Islamic insurgents.
The tactics used by these terrorists should also raise concern instead of suicide bombing or bombing they displayed a potentially far more deadly and destructive tactic. They simply used military weaponry to wage war on unarmed civilians according to media accounts the terrorists simply walked around town with rifles and missile launchers shooting at people or holed up in buildings and started blasting away at the streets. Some of them threw satchel bombs at the local KGB headquarters they failed to get in but they did damage.
The scary thing about this scenario is that it would be one of the most effective methods of terror attack on America. What I like to call Invasion USA, after a disturbingly prophetic B Chuck Norris action picture of the mid 1980s. A group of terrorists finds a way to get to America maybe they come by ship or walk in from Mexico or buy some fake visas. They get here and rendezvouses.
Then instead of building bombs they arm themselves, perhaps with weapons from gun stores, weapons they brought, or weaponry looted from some National Guard arsenal. Then they choose some average American city, say Las Vegas, simply drive into town and start shooting everything and everybody in sight. Imagine the havoc they could wreck sitting in the back of a pick up driving up and down the streets blasting away at pedestrians and store fronts. Or walk into public buildings like casinos, churchs, schools and city hall and start shooting people inside.
The police would probably be helpless to deal with such a situation they're scattered all over town and not organized or armed for combat. Likewise with the National Guard it'd take hours to round them up and get them in the field.
That leaves the regular military, they're either deployed overseas or training at bases in remote rural areas. San Diego is the only American city I can think with large active military units stationed in town. Even when the Army or Marines came in it'd probably be by helicopter, choppers are vulnerable to small arms fire and surface to air missiles. So infantry men might have to land on the outskirts of town and fight their way in leaving civilians in the crossfire. This could result in high casualties because the troops wouldn't have armored vehicles to protect them. So it would probably take the military several hours to sufficient forces to a besieged city, giving the terrorists plenty of time to jump in the car and drive to the next town.
I wonder are our governments prepared for Invasion USA? Even though it's far more likely than a dirty bomb or a madman with a vial of germs. I imagine not.
So the Terror War has taken a disturbing new turn the question is are we ready to deal with it.
posted by great one at 11:03 AM
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