Saturday, September 13, 2008

THE NEXT ATTACK

Here we have two related interviews from NEWSMAX with Marvin J. Cetron, a futurist who predicted a 9/11 type attack years before it happened. The first interview looks at the extent of islamic infiltration into the US. The second looks at likely methods and ramifications.

Of course, any combination of attacks Centron has listed can happen, in addition to things no one can predict. It's my opinion that when the next major attack occurs in America, many solo Jihadi and small independent cells will join in the attack, greatly complicating and what will already be a horrendous situation.


First interview:
Terror Expert: WMD Attack on U.S. Inevitable

"A major terrorist attack on the United States, probably featuring a weapon of mass destruction, is inevitable during the next four to five years, says Marvin J. Cetron, the futurist who predicted 9/11 with alarming insight.
During an exclusive interview with Newsmax, Cetron said the attack could come in as little as two-and-a-half to three years.
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."

His three topics are:
* The Terrorists Are Already Here
* The Issue of Terrorists and Nukes
* Disturbing Trends

See HERE for the full article.
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In the Second interview, he looks at a list of possible targets and assesses the likelihood, and extent of damage and disruption for each scenario.
Expert Reveals Possible Prime Targets of Terrorism

"Marvin J. Cetron, the futurist who predicted 9/11, and who embarrassed the intelligence community with his study “Terror 2000,” said the State Department requested the reference to terrorists using a jet aircraft as a weapon be deleted from the report. Officials feared it might give the terrorists an idea they hadn’t already thought of, Cetron said during an exclusive interview with Newsmax.
"I no longer worry about giving the bad guys ideas. Ordinary citizens need to know where the dangers lie," Cetron said.
This analysis of several possible prime targets of terrorism is based on a new study that Cetron’s Forecasting International carried out for the Pentagon. None of this information is classified.

Although the oft-mentioned threat of a “suitcase” nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb has been discussed widely, and is a possibility, the consequences of attacking lesser, non-nuclear threats can be dire.
Members of the armed forces, the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and many other agencies agree that the question isn’t whether America will be attacked on its own soil again. It’s only a question of when."

Nine scenarios the report outlined:
The topics are:

* Attack on U.S. oil refineries
* Bring down four high-tension wires across the west
* Coordinated suicide shootings at major tourist attractions
* Destroy Tennessee Valley Authority dams
* Explode liquefied natural gas tanker and storage depot near Boston
* Cruise the East Coast, releasing anthrax
* Detonate EMP bombs in the Internet-critical region of Northern Virginia
* Introduce E. coli into fast-food restaurants on Wall Street and Capitol Hill
* Introduce nerve gas into air intakes of crowded public buildings

See HERE for the full article.