I agree with canaandogsrule about how the government or certain groups of power are trying to scare us like little girls with Tales from the Cript. Swines. To cover-up their incompetence they try to distract us with senseless crappola. Have you seen the revolts spreading in European cities these days? That's what happens when corrupt rulers try to fool the people that elected them.

Domestic terrorists have been creating chaos and, yes, terror, among us, specially the poorest folk. Talkin'bout the Federal Reserve , the HMOs, the shark-loaners banks, etc. Also, talking about terorists, I haven't seen one single piece of news in WOAI about the attacks done by Israel toward Gaza, as we have seen in many other news outlets. I wonder, wonder.

Or better yet they infiltrate us from the inside by having us stupidly anoint one of their own and elect him into our highest office for 4 years, where he tears down our internal financial systems, drives us into our greatest U.S. debt, plummeting unemployment, and allows gas prices for his buddies to continually rise; raping the US even further....and what do we do as a nation "we say, yes sir may I have another" and vote to keep him in office for 4 more years. This will go down in history as the greatest hoax and national subversion and infiltration in U.S. and possibly world history, and we're at the butt end of it. Welcome to the new normal...we got had, again America.

Here's where things get awesome. Terrorist plunge the U.S. into the abyss of darkness, poison our drinking water, screw with out traffic lights to make people crash into each other, collapse the banking system and infiltrate hospitals and swap Viagra with sugar cubes....Guess what. Rednecks survive. They've learned to live without power in their trailer shacks, they use river water for everything, they disregard traffic lights and signs anyways, they bury their paychecks in a coffee can and sugar for the tea is a must....so....win. Gubbmint leaches though...aww sad..you'll be left to starve.

Oh, I almost forgot. NCIS played out this scenario on television years ago . . . in Season 2 or 3.

We gamed terrorist scenarios back in college over 30 years ago . . . nothing new in this article (indeed, a lot of possible targets have not even been mentioned in print anywhere). I have to admit, though, in none of those gaming session did any one ever come up with using hijacked airliners in a kamikaze attack.

""""according to a study just released by the National Research Council."""---> HEY! Welcome to 10 years ago folks. Where you been? This is News? NOT! The grid has been 'vulnerable' for decades. It's just NOW a problem because nobody knows what to do without power. Just Look at NYC.

As is the water supply, monetary distribution, medical supplies, transportation....anything else you want to scare us about? The media just lives to distribute stories to scare us to death about things we have no control over. A mass earthquake/tsunami/epidemic can wipe us out in seconds!!! Can it.