Waiting on the Next Attack

I had an interesting conversation with my brother-in-law this afternoon. I told him of the sad story of how a St. Louis TV station staged an undercover sting attempting to purchase ammonium nitrate (a fertilizer and one of the active ingredients in the Oklahoma City bomb) from dealers in MO. The sting operators used every "red flag" you can think of to make the dealers say no to a sale. Unfortunately, two of the three dealers they filmed sold anything and everything that was requested no questions asked.

I then related the story of the "photographers" in Wisconsin that I was aware of, who were taking still and motion pics of an agronomy center and the accompanying fertilizer storage areas. The county mounties were called and when told that neither anything was stolen or broken, the incident was dismissed. When I was informed of the incident the next day by the manager, I immediately called the FBI and they were on site within two hours. (Incidentally, the FBI says don't even bother calling the locals if you see anything suspicious, call the FBI first.) My b-i-l was pretty amazed at this story and all that is going on that they general public doesn't know or isn't aware.

The question came about when did I think the next attack would come. I don't know, but my guess is the bad guys won't do a big term, slow developing thing like poisoning the food supply, because that doesn't play well on CNN International. Instead, they want smoke and fire. It's a better visual for their purposes.

Bottom line is there have been dozens, maybe hundreds, of attempts which we are not aware and for which, we need to thank our government staffers working in silence to protect us all.