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Old 10-19-2010, 10:05 AM  
SallyRand
So Fucking Banned
 
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
The next terrorist attack will be on our ports. You watch. They'll hijack an oil tanker ten miles off of the coast of a port, kill the crew, pour on the speed, and then flee. It will hit a port at 30 knots. Happened once in Texas in the 1950s, destroyed an entire town.
I would expect them to use an LNG carrier instead of a Crude Carrier. A cloud of LNG drifting through a city would go off with the force of a small nuclear bomb. A homebrew nuke stuck in the hold of a freighter could also easily be done. The effects of any of these would be devastating.
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