{"id":15191,"date":"2003-03-04T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/pearl-harbor-threatened\/"},"modified":"2003-03-04T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T13:38:00","slug":"pearl-harbor-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/pearl-harbor-threatened\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Harbor Threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Washington Times<\/i> reports that &ldquo;Terrorists linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20030303-104.htm\" target=\"_blank\">al Qaeda have targeted U.S. military facilities in Pearl Harbor<\/a>, including nuclear-powered submarines and ships,&rdquo; and are &ldquo;planning an attack on Pearl Harbor because of its symbolic value and because its military facilities are open from the air.&rdquo;  I suppose nothing should surprise me these days, but this is just despicable.  <\/p>\n<p>A related story that is at least as disturbing is the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/wnt\/US\/alqaeda_tape030303_preview.html\" target=\"_blank\">discovery of tapes surveilling the World Trade Center and other landmarks<\/a> as long ago as 1997, allegedly in preparation for attacks.  I&rsquo;ve refrained from posting paranoid, speculative stories on terrorism, but these two were especially poignant and just plain scary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90404282?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that &ldquo;Terrorists linked to al Qaeda have targeted U.S. military facilities in Pearl Harbor, including nuclear-powered submarines and ships,&rdquo; and are &ldquo;planning an attack on Pearl Harbor because of its symbolic value and because its military facilities are open from the air.&rdquo; I suppose nothing should surprise me these days, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/pearl-harbor-threatened\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pearl Harbor Threatened&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}