Schneier on Security

Nomenumbra • April 4, 2007 3:01 PM

Group: Project Mayhem Revolutionary Combat Cells (PMRCC)
Primary Objective: Hijack several airplanes, crashing them into major financial centra all over the world to bring a final blow to the globalist opressors.
Secondary Objective: Obtain global attention for “the cause”
Funding: $500,000
Militant Count: 20/30

Act I:

April, 2007:

 Core members of the action group all over the world start to buy equipment.
 Core equipment:                      Obtained:                                           Price:
   Low-concentration Nitroglycerine - manefactured from seperate chemical ingredients         Approximately $1000
                                      (obtained from various science/chemist hobbiest
                                      stores all over the country)

   Insuline injection needles and forged - Corrupt officials/Conterfeiters                     Approx. $400
   diabetus patient papers

   50 Small AA Drycell batteries         - Any store                                           Approx. $250
   20 bottles of 16oz. hydrogen peroxide (3% concentration)
   10 Small necklaces with a strong, nail-like pendant
   90 Eggs, 3 jerry cans of petrol, 2kg of table-salt
   10 Earplugs and 10 strong shades.

   5 moderatly old laptops               - Electronics store                                   Approx. $2000

   5 medium-range EMP devices            - Assembled using mediocre electronics knowledge      Approx. $1000
                                           and several online manuals

   10 FlashBangs                         - Buy from a local arms dealer or steal               Approx. $200
                                           from police forces

 sub-total: $3,850

 The complete group of militants is known only by 3 core organizers who divide the group in 3 seperate
 groups of about 6/10 individuals based on geographic distribution (target regions being the U.S, China and Europe).

 These groups, not knowing of each other's existance, operate in complete secrecy in old,unused buildings (squat them for example)
 whilst maintaining low-profile, normal lives.

 Each group starts preparing the following:

 Mix 10 eggs and take the Egg white. Mix with the gasoline in a medium jar.
 Use 85% Petrol, 14% egg whites and 1 % table salt
 Add salt to the mixture and stir until gel forms (about 5 to 10 minutes).
 Cap the jar, put it in hot (65 degrees) water for about half an hour and then let it cool to room temperature.

 This creates a very flammable and explosive gel, which will be disguised as regular hair gel.

 Fill the insuline needles with nytroglicerine (low concentration to prevent shock-indused detonation)

 Also, the action groups will follow basic combat training for approx. 2 months, and will take minor flying lessons over a course of 3 months.

 Training cost: $30,000 (including flight lessons)

 Total cost of the operation: $33,850
 Funds remaining: $466,150

Act II:

July, 2007:

The action groups board planes to Honkong, London and New York.
The action group, consisting of about 6/10 men/women wearing dark shades boards the plane (disguising the flashbang as an inhaler for one of the militants who poses as an asmatic)
One of them claims to be a diabetus patient, and has accompanying papers and a insuline injection needle.
The flights seem like normal flights, when, right when the plane is above the business district of the target city, a passenger calls the flight
attendant to the back, claiming he feels unwell. Meanwhile a second action group member moves to the toilet with a small bottle
of cola and two small bottles of hydrogen peroxide (which is allowed on planes under cosmetics) ,hidden under his sweater, and about 5 small AA batteries. Once inside the toilet, he starts listening for the signal yell
(being “You are not your job, you are not your house and you are not your fcking telivision”).
Meanwhile he takes out the batteries and punctures holes in their backs using the pin on his necklace. Slowly, he uses the sharp side to sow off the back and scrape out the magnesium oxide (containing sulfuric acid) and
sets it apart. Then he proceeds to pour the hydrogen peroxide in the emptied cola bottle.
While the flight attendant is still being distracted by the first militant, another one takes a bottle of what seems like hair gel and subtly rubs it into his sweater (without anyone noticing).
Then, the militant seated as close as possible to the cockpit takes out the flashbang inhaler and shouts “You are not your job, you are not your house and you are not your fcking telivision” before throwing it to the back of the planes.
Right after the yell, the other militants plug in their earplugs and put on their shades, causing the flashbang to have nearly no effect on them. Any airmarshal on the flight, however, will be disabled while the militant in the toilet combines the
sulfuric acid with the hydrogen peroxide, jumps out of the toilet and throws the bomb at the cabin door, causing it to blast apart (of course, a relatively small bomb is used in order to prevent the entire plane from exploding).
All of the militants then proceed to take off their sunglasses and dismount them, revealing extremely thin but razor-sharp knives. About 4 of the militants keep several passengers hostage, while the others proceed to penetrate the cockpit, killing the pilot(s) and proceed to commandeer the plane and fly it into their designated target.
If anything goes wrong, like the air marshall recovering in time, the militant with the inflammable sweater will take out his zippo en set it on fire, causing a massive flame to errupt from it, setting fire to the plane and causing it to crash in the middle of the business district.
An alternative method that can be used (when for whatever reason the bomb cannot be manefactured or taking direct action is too risky), several militants take out a laptop rigged with a medium-range EMP device and trigger it. This will disrupt all on-board electronics, causing the plane to crash above the business district.
If all these methods fail, the “diabetus patient” takes out his
needle and zippo en sets fire to it, causing the plane to explode in mid-air.

Either way, the planes will either crash or be flown into the following targets, all around the globe, with the focus on the United States:

Honkong:

 Two International Finance Centre
 HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building
 Bank of China Tower

London:

 London Stock Exchange
 Tower 42
 Lloyd's building

New York:

 New York Stock Exchange
 Bank of New York
 Citigroup Building
 Goldmann sachs building
 Bankers Trust Company Building
 J.P. Morgan Inc.
 Chase national bank

Several wallstreet business men in the streets look up as they see a plane heading for the Citigroup building and another
one for the New York Stock Exchange, recalling 9/11 they flee in fear, when a third plane crashes in mid-air, falling down onto
the Chase national bank building. Meanwhile, in London, a near copy of this act of terrorism is shown, when hijacked planes fly into
the Lloyd’s building, Tower 42 and the stock exchange, whilst in Hong Kong, other major financial institutions are hit.

Act III:

July, 2007, 15 minutes after the attacks.

Several networks of major international news broadcasters are hacked into and a message is emmited on every major news channel, featuring 3 masked men sitting in a dim-lit room:
“Fellow worldcitizens, I know how you have suffered under the opression of the globalist pigs, leeching off from your work, coercing you into
wage-slavery whilst profiting from your efforts.
As long as man has had breath, others have sought to exploit our brethern, in favor of themselves.
CEOs? Businessmen? Leeches! Parasites! That’s what they are!
For from the beginning, when man’s struggle was with nature, not knowing where he might sleep, how he would eat, or whether he would survive to see the light of dawn
there have always been those who would lord over others. People who believe that they by some unseen right they are granted power over others, and would push others
down so they might climb, are the greatest threat to mankind’s existence. For many years has one man or one race prospered on the sweat and work of others.
Whether we consider the pharaohs of Egypt, the Caesars of Rome, the kings of England, or the emperors of China, it was always the blood and sweat of others
that created their empires. Today, it are the capitalist globalists that exploit the workers of the world. Whilst they sit in their expensive mansions, leeching of the effort
of others, workers all over the world die from disease and starvation, only to work for their debaucheries. And if that is not enough, they profit from their pointless resource
wars, sending the common man into his death and enrichening themselves in the process. Such a system is an affront to mankind, for another world is possible. A world where all of
us work together for our common future as the human race, it might not be perfect, for no such system exists, but mankind would be free and live in dignity and peace.
Today we have hit the capitalist pigs at their very heart, their financial centra, the core of their exploitation. Today, the first step to freedom has been made. Today, some of our fellow
strugglers have sacrificed themselves in order to set you free. Today, my brethern, world citizens, we are one step closer to a just and fair world. I call upon thee, my brothers and sisters,
to continue this journey of freedom, for now is the chance, the capitalist opressors are without their beloved power and resources, smash them whilst you have the chance!”

After this message has been broadcast in both first and third world countries, with the global economy having virtually collapsed (as not only the financial centra have been destabilized, but also public confidence
has dropped to such a low that investing is virtually non-existant), insurgencies and uprisings start to break out everywhere. Financial districts are being raided and banks are being plundered, eventually leading to the
complete devaluation of money in itself, and people resorting to more primitive means of existance, making them more self-sufficient, achieving the goal of the PMRCC.

Of course, the TSA would have to ban hair gel, insuline injection needles, laptops, sunglasses, zippos, inhalers, batteries, necklaces and earplugs.