Eyeballing the Black Tom Terrorist Attack

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2 August 2006

The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, Chad Millman, Little Brown, July 2006. A book which features the Black Tom explosion and other industrial sabotages by an extensive German secret network of spies, saboteurs and fabricators of bombs and incendiary devices attempting to prevent shipment of US war supplies to Britain in the early years of World War I. A parallel is drawn with today's terrorist threat to the US from highly educated and technologically-skilled foreigners, American citizens and immigrants loyal to countries and cultures hostile to American foreign policy. These German attacks led to the rise of US counter-intelligence and intelligence operations. Descriptions of sabotage means and methods -- funding arrangements, agent recruitment, secret operations, planting of cigar and pencil bombs -- are sufficiently detailed to instruct those with similar aspirations. The Germans were far more accomplished at waging covert war inside the US than later communists and, so far, current enemies. This book is superior to the Al Qaeda Terrorist Training Manual for it provides guidance to industrial-grade attacks well beyond pin-prick suicide and vehicle bombs, and demonstrates what major damage sophisticated and stealthy civilians can do that armed insurgents cannot.

Jersey City History of Black Tom Explosion:

http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/Pages/B_Pages/Black_Tom_Explosion.htm

Similar threats to the US, and in particular, New York City from nearby industrial facilties:

Keuhne Chemical Terrorist Threat:

http://www.kearnyontheweb.com/environment.html
http://eyeball-series.org/kuehne-birdseye.htm

Eyeballing
the
Black Tom Terrorist Attack

Captions by Associated Press

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** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY JULY 30--FILE ** Police investigate the explosion of a munition plant on Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in this file photo of July 30, 1916. Evidence pointed to German sabotage, and some historians regard it as the first major terrorist attack on the United States by a foreign party - 85 years before the destruction of New York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo)
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A fireboat is shown amid ruins and soaked smoldering debris on the piers at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., July 30, 1916. German saboteurs detonated tons of munitions on barges intended for the war in Europe. (AP Photo)

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This view shows the ruins on the pier following the explosion of a munition plant at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in 1916. German saboteurs demolished the plant in one of many homeland attacks in response to the British naval blockade of Germany. The pier is opposite the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor. (AP Photo)
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This view shows the ruins at Black Tom Island following the explosion of a munition plant by German saboteurs in Jersey City, N.J., 1916. (AP Photo)

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This view shows the ruined building of the munitions plant in the aftermath of an explosion by German saboteurs at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in 1916. (AP Photo)
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This view shows the wreckage of buildings on the pier at Black Tom Island, part of Jersey City, N.J., following the explosion of a munition plant set off by German saboteurs, July 1916. The pier is opposite the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor. (AP Photo)

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Eyeballing the Black Tom Terrorist Attack
Captions by Associated Press
ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY JULY 30--FILE Police investigate the explosion of a munition plant on Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in this file photo of July 30, 1916. Evidence pointed to German sabotage, and some historians regard it as the first major terrorist attack on the United States by a foreign party - 85 years before the destruction of New York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo)	A fireboat is shown amid ruins and soaked smoldering debris on the piers at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., July 30, 1916. German saboteurs detonated tons of munitions on barges intended for the war in Europe. (AP Photo)
This view shows the ruins on the pier following the explosion of a munition plant at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in 1916. German saboteurs demolished the plant in one of many homeland attacks in response to the British naval blockade of Germany. The pier is opposite the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor. (AP Photo)	This view shows the ruins at Black Tom Island following the explosion of a munition plant by German saboteurs in Jersey City, N.J., 1916. (AP Photo)
This view shows the ruined building of the munitions plant in the aftermath of an explosion by German saboteurs at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in 1916. (AP Photo)	This view shows the wreckage of buildings on the pier at Black Tom Island, part of Jersey City, N.J., following the explosion of a munition plant set off by German saboteurs, July 1916. The pier is opposite the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor. (AP Photo)