[Robert Dabkowski]

"Timmies" ?



And Geoff, considering that 'A-bomb' plans are available all over the internet along with any number of homemade 'kitchen table' recipies for high explosives, just what was so dangerous about the centre section of my initial sitrep ?

Do you not read the news nor watch television ? The 'bad guys' as you call them ARE ALREADY using the same techniques that I highlited, against our troops on the ground in Afghanistan.

Perhaps our biggest training base here in Ontario should begin to prepare our young men and women for the types of unconventional warfare threats that they WILL be facing once overseas ?

Those same 'bad guys' developed those techniques in the first place so you can be CERTAIN that they ALREADY know more about them than we, safe and secure here in Canada, ever will. I surely hope, anyway.

Only if our whole population is forewarned, can they be watchful for the threats facing us all. Playing 'ostrich' and keeping every threat secret just makes us all more vulnerable. And any surprise attack, all the more effective, publicity wise.

I agree that there is NO point at all in scaring everyone so badly that they can't sleep at night BUT our society DOES face real threats of violence from Al Quida (sp ?), the Taliban AND some of the more radical elements of our own, home grown, First Nations.

You certainly own the MLU site and thus can run it as you wish but I would ask that you think a little more deeply wrt this topic.

I would certainly much prefer to post only on past history and military vehicle topics but as you know, the current 'war on terror' is going to affect all aspects of every part of our military interest hobby 'universe'.