At one of the online poetry workshops I occasionally visit, the moderator, Rob Godfrey, made a parenthetical comment while discussing the political after-effects of Katrina:

(obviously it would have been very easy for terrorists to blow/breach the New Orleans levees).

I don’t know the accuracy of the supposition, but suppose myself that causing such a structural failure would have been relatively simple if explosives had been placed at the right points.

In earlier 5GW discussion, particularly also related to the Chinese concept of Unrestricted Warfare, the possibility of man-made “natural disasters” was mentioned. At the time, I wondered what sort of natural disaster, beyond viral epidemics, could be effected by a 5GW entity, from a practical point of view. Now I have a better idea.

As I said to Rob, bin Laden is probably taking notes, among others.