Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: adrian%cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK (Adrian Hurt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: The Channel Tunnel Message-ID: <11203@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Nov 89 02:17:48 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Adrian Hurt And now for something completely different. I assume that folks here have heard of the proposed tunnel under the English Channel, between south-east England and France. It seems to me that if it is completed, it will be a perfect target for terrorists. All it needs is a car full of baddies at each end, armed with assault rifles and probably grenades, and equipped also with radios or good watches for synchronisation, and they could hold the whole tunnel to ransom. Especially if they can get hold of enough explosive, of sufficient power, to put a hole in the tunnel. So where have I gone wrong? Is such an attack impossible? Or are we giving the IRA an offer they cannot refuse? "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: adrian@uk.ac.hw.cs UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk