We've had two terror alerts in the past week.
Last week, we had an alert which was quickly retracted. It appears as though the US and Chinese authorities are at odds with each other of the amount of information that can be doled out to the public.
This week...we received this...
Warden Message
November 13, 2005
The United States Government has received credible information that a
terrorist threat may exist against official U.S. Government facilities
in Guangzhou. This threat also may exist for places where Americans are
known to congregate or visit, including clubs, restaurants, places of worship,
schools or outdoor recreation events.
Keeping our eyes and ears open. This is the first time we have had a direct warning at us in GZ.
So...a word of advice to the nutballs of Al K. Aida. A strike like this would have to be the dumbest thing you could ever think of...just short of the 9-11 bombings and pretty close to the recent Amman bombings.
Dropping a couple homicider's in the middle of a hotel in China would do nothing but inflame the already potent nationalist furvor over anything foreign. Did you happen to check the papers when the PM of Japan visited a shrine dedicated to war 'heroes' in Japan? The government can stir up a nationalist fever pitch with the wave of a wand...and you would be history.
Any chance of getting a piece of Xinjiang would be over. All of your buddies across this land would be finished.
They don't do trials here...oh they do, but they don't mean much. The media doesn't give a crap about freedom...they only do what they are told. You cannot control these minds by manipulating their media. Any kind of sympathetic ear you may have had with the government here (because anything anti-American is typically OK with these guys), would be gone. KILLING Americans crosses that line of being Anti and being Crazy.
You would end up fighting a war on two fronts...just as Hitler did to himself in WWII. A western front (Iraq, Europe) and an Eastern front (Xinjiang and all that borders it).
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