"Beyond New York and Washington, D.C., I would challenge anybody to say there's a city that, if you perpetrated an attack, would attract more media attention. Between the Strip, Nellis complex (an Air Force base and range) and Hoover Dam, we're a huge threat city."
Not a big surprise, really. I did a story on this for US News & World Report in 2003 and for The New York Times in 2007. I guess I'm due again, with this news, though, since it's interesting to hear it from someone like that.
Y'know what would be fun? I mean, if we weren't talking about death and destruction? To rank Vegas resorts as to where they belong on a list of the most appealing targets. Look at which the wire service UPI seems to think, given how they adorned their rewrite of the Sun's story:
Can't you just see Osama in his cave right now, plotting ways to take out the Main Street Station and the freedom represented by the chunk of the Berlin Wall encasing the urinals?
Personally, I figured Slots A Fun would be the first to go. Or maybe Circus Circus' demonic clown. Or, God willing, the F'blew.
Y'know what would be fun? I mean, if we weren't talking about death and destruction? To rank Vegas resorts as to where they belong on a list of the most appealing targets. Look at which the wire service UPI seems to think, given how they adorned their rewrite of the Sun's story:
Can't you just see Osama in his cave right now, plotting ways to take out the Main Street Station and the freedom represented by the chunk of the Berlin Wall encasing the urinals?
Personally, I figured Slots A Fun would be the first to go. Or maybe Circus Circus' demonic clown. Or, God willing, the F'blew.
