> And they managed to to kill less than 30 people (provisional count). It is almost trivial to be an effective terrorist if body count is what you're optimizin

> And they managed to to kill less than 30 people (provisional count). It is almost trivial to be an effective terrorist if body count is what you're optimizing for. In Baghdad they blew a fuel tanker sky high, the blast rattled my windows so hard across the city that I thought we were the ones under attack. I have wondered (ever since it was my job to think like a guerrilla fighter) why terrorists don't do similar things in the US or other countries. How many fuel tankers are there in the US? How hard would it be to GTA one of them and drive it into a dense gathering of people? How hard would it be to re-enact the CoD MW2 airport scene? Perhaps it is symbolism not body counts they seek? After all the DC sniper effectively terrorized three states with a rifle. In the infantry nothing is scarier than land mines and snipers. All I know is surveillance can't stop every tanker or lone gunman. It's just too easy to do these kinds of things without the use of anything with a significant RF signature.