...and let your opponents work for you. The Robbster thinks that Mr Pants on Fire was an attempt at failure by design, leveraging the clumsy and cynical response of the security apparat:
Failure is interesting, as a strategy, because it doesn't require the necessary planning, funding, and training required for a potentially successful attack. As a result, attacks can be made quickly across a broad spectrum of targets.
Assuming, that is, you have the numbers to make this work. Normally, the assumption should be that if you attract capable people then you don't need incapable people. Then again Al Q and its various franchises tend to encourage initiative as a structural thing: even the crappest attempted apocalypse stimulates a satisfying knee jerk response. There does seem to be a mutually supporting kind of race to the bottom here.
Terrorists and terrorism experts united in search for continuing relevance.
Of course, if you really wanted to do this, you could achieve much more with hoaxes, which cost nothing and can be generated for multiple simultaneous targets trivially.
Is J-Ro still burying his money, btw?
Posted by: Alex | December 30, 2009 at 01:32 PM
I hear he had a six-inch explosive charge in his pants. Fnrr.
Posted by: skidmarx | December 31, 2009 at 01:09 PM