1. I'd buy a small ocean-going sail boat. I mean Al Qaeda is well funded so this wouldn't be a prob. Something nondescript like that can ferry just about anything, from anywhere, to anywhere, bypassing customs, passport control, baggage checks and all that shit. 2. I'd go to that arms market in Pakistan where they make just about every kind of gun there is. I'd buy a few DSHK's (eastern bloc .50 cal MG's) and a thousand rounds or so. 3. I'd sail to America. 4. I and my accomplices would shoot up some large open air gathering of people (like an open air concert or 4th of july festival or St. Patrick's day parade or something) from concealed pre-prepared positions. With the densely packed nature of the crowd, and the power and lethality of the heavy .50 rounds coming from the machine guns, the greater part of a thousand deaths is not out of the question. Pretty low tech and it doesn't involve hijacking airliners or pilot training or anything, but you just killed masses of infidels. Allah Akbar! This is just one example of something these fools could do, it would be pretty easy, it's kinda scary. I wonder why they never try these kind of attacks. Still you never know when they'll come up with something. Watch your six. Keep a steady hand and a sharp eye. Ack, I'm kinda rambling now. But I'm just exploring how hideously open to this kinda shit our society is. Know what I mean?
I think you'd be surprised how any countries will stop small vessels that enter their waters. You're now relying on no-one being there and turning you in. Coast guard would stop you and search your boat. You have to sneak these big weapons and all their ammunition into position. Doesn't involve pilot training but it does involve many things arguably as difficult such as how to navigate a yacht over the pacific ocean. Keep in mind that the 9/11 hijackers didnt have to learn all the hard bits like landing or takeoff. While this plan is convulted and would unravel somewhere along the way, the ease with which anyone could kill dozens or hundreds of people is actually reassuring to me, not scary. The fact it isn't happening very often in our society is proof that there aren't as many moustache twirling villains waiting around the corner as some people want to believe. I'd suggest focusing more attention on your driving and eating habits, you're much more likely to die from that.
You don't have to acquire the weapons in Pakistan to pull off a small-arms terror attack in the U.S. A parade already has heavy police presence, and the crowd will still thin out fairly quickly. I can see the possible symbolic value of attacking one, but a few bombs would do better. Think of a commuter train. Full of people unarmed, unprepared, with no immediate way out.
That's too complicated. You take advantage of America's weaknesses. So...you work through the (likely) pre-existing relationship between Afghanistan's heroin producers and Mexican drug lords. Send a couple of advance men to Mexico to buy weapons and make arrangements with some immigrant smugglers. Send the shooters in through Mexico, disguised as illegals. Disperse them through the country. Shoot up Fourth of July parades. Much easier than a sailboat idea, and there's nothing really on the border to stop 'em from coming through.
Well, if we're talking exploiting America's weaknesses, disguise your plane as a big black penis. You freak out the racists and the homophobes in one fell swoop. Hell, strap black dildos to your guns too.
