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From: seaotter@athena.mit.edu (Amazing Stace)
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Subject: Re: Techno Terror
Message-ID: <1991May1.161258.17706@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 16:12:58 GMT
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isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account) writes:
>...
>I mean if terrorists wanted to cause massive traffic jams and accidents
>they could simply use the traffic light strobe controllers.

Or more simply, blow up enough overpasses/onramps/whatever.
Why be so complicated?  Better yet, set off a nice big'un in
a tunnel -- Lincoln Tunnel in NY, for example?

Ciao,
  Mike
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