Useful Fools

Today, we obsess over Obama and electoral politics. Was Biden the right choice? Who will McCain pick? Will the economy hand the election to the Democrats? What do we do about the price of gasoline?

Now, imagine August, 2006… if….

Aug 11, 715PM San Francisco - First reports are arriving of a major explosion in downtown San Francisco. Large clouds of smoke are visible. Many claim to have seen an airliner, in flames, just before the event.

Aug 11, 725PM San Francisco - FAA sources are confirming that a plane headed to San Francisco Airport has crashed.

Aug 11, 945PM Chicago - A large fire is burning in a crowded residential district near O’Hare airport. It is believed than an airliner has crashed.

Aug 11, 9:56PM Washington - Homeland Security sources report that terrorism is suspected in the two crashes in the last hour. Both aircraft had departed the UK at about the same time.

Aug 11, 1003PM Washington - There was a large explosion at the White House and a huge fire is burning. Apparently an airliner just crashed there. Bodies are strewn down Pennsylvania Avenue. Emergency equipment is racing to the scene. The fate of the President and his family are unknown.

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Aug 12, 1000AM Washington - Department of Homeland Security puts the death toll from last night’s coordinated terror attack at 3608 passengers and crew, and approximately 350 persons on the ground. A total of ten airliners bound from Europe were involved, with 8 exploding over major cities, one crashing at sea, and one landing safely after a bomb failed to explode and passengers subdued the terrorists.

All commercial air travel in the United States and Europe has been halted. President Cheney has declared a national day of mourning, with all businesses, schools and government offices closed.

The terrorists are tentatively identified as members of an Al Qaeda off-shoot cell in Great Britain. They are believed to have used home-made liquid explosives similar to those used by Palestinian suicide bombers.

What you just read almost happened. By the time British intelligence foiled the plot, 6 of the suspects had already made “martyrdom tapes.”

So let’s see… what is it we were focused on?