Osama Bin Laden in an audiotape makes threats to the US

[janswizard]

Just think back less than a year ago when the dockworkers on the West Coast went on strike. This had such a ripple effect on businesses nationwide - some felt the pinch right away, others didn't feel it until weeks or months later.

Working for a shopping network, we get many of our products from manufacturers who ship either whole or partial goods from overseas. Customers never could understand when we would try to explain that the strike was creating problems with getting inventories - I think many thought that because the strike was over, then goods would be immediate. But in many cases, it took a long time for all the ships that were stacked up in the port to be unloaded; those that had components of other items to be manufactured were delayed, making final product late in arriving as well.

So an attack on just one port, on either coast, could ultimately delay the goods that we need here in the states. And if these ships contained foostuffs? Then we'll all go hungry together.