November 17, 2015, - 6:08 pm
ISIS Takes A Page From Showtime’s “Sleeper Cell” TV Series
Looks like ISIS borrowed a page and a terrorist plot from the Showtime series “Sleeper Cell.”
I thought that our CIA and other governments read and watched the plots of fiction books, TV shows and movies to get an inside line on plots terrorists might use, a la the people who worked at the CIA bureau depicted in the 1975 movie, “Three Days of the Condor.” But, then, I always figured that the knowledge and resulting databases of those plots were an unmined “circular file” to which the feds and the rest of the government never paid attention.
And it sure looks like I was right about that latter part.
Today, a soccer match in Germany was canceled after reports that a truck bomb disguised as an ambulance or an ambulance filled with explosives was found nearby, in addition to a suspicious suitcase. The German government is trying to downplay the ambulance story, but it appears to be true.
This is the exact plot of the first season of “Sleeper Cell,” which aired in 2005–a show which Slate called “improbable.” In that season of the show (which lasted two seasons), Sunni Islamic terrorists (just like ISIS) bought trucks that were either old ambulances or looked like them. They attacked a Major League Baseball game with a small attack, and then they planned to use the fake ambulances to stage the real, larger attack on the fleeing spectators.
Hmmm . . . what do you think ISIS was going to do with its ambulance filled with explosives? Probably the same thing as the terrorists tried to do on TV.
After Al-Qaeda attacked America on 9/11, terrorists from the group said that they came up with the plot by learning from our own movies and TV shows and that it was a failure of our imagination not to uncover the plot.
Maybe law enforcement authorities should pay closer attention to the fictional terror plots that are out there in pop culture.
The plot of “Sleeper Cell” may have been about to repeat itself, courtesy of ISIS.
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I’ve reviewed “Sleeper Cell” because Showtime sent me the series before the second season aired. While the first season was far superior, the second season is pretty good, too. I think the series is very realistic, except for the part about the patriotic Muslim FBI agent. Many Muslim FBI agents are traitorous, as I’ve documented time and again on this site.
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That ambulance/bomb idea was also used in the movie “The Kingdom.” Terrorist dressed as police in an American housing project in Saudi Arabia, machine gunned Americans playing and attending a company softball game. Mass murder. Afterwards, when everyone was bunched up around the ambulances, one detonated wiping out everyone around. Coming to a city near you. Wake up America!
WilliamMunny on November 17, 2015 at 6:23 pm