Thursday, September 11, 2008

looming wmd attack on us

on the heels of my last post, newsmax has an article today discussing the prospects of a wmd attack on the us. marvin j. cetron says that an attack using a wmd is inevitable during the next 4-5 years. his estimation is that the attack could come in as little as 2.5 - 3 years from now.

Cetron, who startled and embarrassed the intelligence community with his study
“Terror 2000,” has let the genie out of the bottle again with his latest report,
“55 Trends Now Shaping the Future of Terrorism.”
When Newsmax asked how the expert and founder of Forecasting International Inc. (FI) can be so sure of the impending disasters, he said he needed to guard his classified sources. “Let me put it this way: We have so many good sources of signals intelligence and human intelligence that lets us know what doesn’t show up in the press,” he said.


FI, which produced “55 Trends” has conducted an ongoing study of the
forces changing our world for almost half a century in support of clients
ranging from General Motors to the YMCA, and from the Central Intelligence
Agency to the White House.


“Terror 2000,” another FI project that was done for the Department of Defense in 1994, warned that terrorists were planning to use commercial aircraft as guided bombs to strike against a major landmark in the New York City area. It also warned that terrorists could hijack a commercial airliner, fly it down the Potomac, and crash it into the Pentagon. Tragically, the report was filed and forgotten.

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