The "plagues" are Mosaic asymmetric attacks, not biological

[Tyler Durden]

Variola wrote...

>Again, the Mosaic approach of repeated asymmetric attacks on the Pharoah
>is what Al Q
>is up to.  Eventually the Pharoah/US gets fed up and says fuck it.
>Maybe not this election, but eventually, and Al has time.  GW has only
>4 more years, at best, and Rummy & Cheney are scheduled for a box in the
>ground pretty
>soon.  Wolfy has more time, but after a few more kilocorpses will lose
>power with
>Joe Sixpack and Joe's post-Bush "leader".


I think that's pretty on the money. Terrorism doesn't actually need to 
affect any single Head Bandit, but after a regime change or two and a 
pullout occurs the new Bandit can say "We meant to do that anyway." The 
French and Algeria is a great example.

The Mosaic analogy was a good one, too, and not even original: See John 
Adams' "The Death of Leon Klinghoffer" and you'll know why it took so much 
heat....having Palestinians singing phrases from Exodus and Psalms was just 
a little too much for the music-funding establishment. It says a lot, 
however, that the guy still gets commissions.

-TD

"Oh Kent! I'd be lying if I said my men didn't commit any crimes!"
-Homer Simpson

"Touche."
-Kent Brockman


>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov>
>To: "cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: The "plagues" are Mosaic asymmetric attacks, not biological
>Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:11:55 -0800
>
>At 05:21 PM 10/31/04 -0800, John Young wrote:
> >To state the obvious to Major Variola, CDC will have first
> >indication of a devastating US attack, reported fragmentarily
> >under its links to hospitals, clinics and physicians, against
> >which the might military and law enforcement have no defenses.
>
>You thought I meant bio plagues?!  Jeezus John, is your metaphorizer
>broken?  Any
>bio hazard is accidental, or Detrick, not Osama.  A *succession of
>attacks against the Empire* is what I mean, alluding to the Jews
>attacking
>the Pharaoh, until he let them alone.    Pharoah=US, Moses=UBL,
>Jews=Moslems.
>Get your head around that one.
>
>News:
>The infectious biological "attack" will be an accident of the modularity
>
>and recombination of influenza on some chinese duck/pig/human
>farm.  It will not be intentional but it will kill a lot before the
>vaccine
>can be produced, which takes ca. 6 mos..  See 1918 pandemic,
>and add jet airplanes.  A recent _Science_ article described
>a model of this.  You are one or two days away from that duck/pig/human
>incubator nowadays, no matter where you live.  That will happen,
>but it won't be intentional.  The geopoli implications will be fun, but
>UBL is not involved there.
>
>Observation:
>A non-infectious biological attack (eg anthrax which isn't
>infectious) is cheap, but not Al Q's preferred MO.  They go
>for the special effects type attacks, simultaneous so you
>know its them.  (Otherwise it could be a suicical egyptian,
>a rudder jerked too hard, a screw-jack improperly lubricated,
>the NTSC is very creative.)
>
>Of course the Ft Detrick folks enjoy sending
>the occasional sporulated letter to senators, but hey, their funding was
>
>running out, you do what you gotta do.
>
>Implementation:
>A chem attack is pretty nifty, and in many ways easier than
>fission or RDDs.  Since there are so many chems moving
>around, and rad sources are so easy to detect, by virtue of the
>energy of the emissions, and controlled/surveilled materials.
>
>A tanker into a school is double the fun,
>its been years since Columbine, and the underbelly is itching
>for a scratch.  (Again, you need to pull off 2 the same day.)
>I wonder if there is a school that enrolls only
>first born sons, that would be interesting to read about in your mosaic
>er netscape er IE browser, eh?   Since your allusion-detector is broken,
>
>"mosaic", get it?
>
>History:
>"Let my people go" and taking a beating only works if you have
>wannabe-moral brits who want to divest anyway and your name is
>Ghandi.  Otherwise the biblical plagues, aka asymmetric attack, approach
>is
>guaranteed to work in the limit.  All you need is enough popular
>support.
>Its there.
>
>It only took 200 dead marines and one bomb
>to evict us from Lebanon, maybe 50K corpses for S. Nam, don't know about
>
>N Korea, but do the math.   .mil are disposable, but they have families
>that
>whine and vote.  And the press is not *entirely* 0wn3d by the .gov, yet.
>
>Conclusion:
>Again, the Mosaic approach of repeated asymmetric attacks on the Pharoah
>is what Al Q
>is up to.  Eventually the Pharoah/US gets fed up and says fuck it.
>Maybe not this election, but eventually, and Al has time.  GW has only
>4 more years, at best, and Rummy & Cheney are scheduled for a box in the
>ground pretty
>soon.  Wolfy has more time, but after a few more kilocorpses will lose
>power with
>Joe Sixpack and Joe's post-Bush "leader".
>
>Operation Just Cause
>Just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean I have to ignore
>Egyptian/Hebrew history.
>Just because I live here doesn't mean I don't think the US deserves the
>treatment
>that any Empire deserves.  Just because I'm an American doesn't mean I
>can't use
>sophisticated allusions.  Just because I say Mosaic Plagues doesn't mean
>I'm
>talking about frogs & locusts.  Dig?

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