Allah

On September the 11th 2001 Osama Bin Laden gave Dylan Klebold the best birthday present he could ever had wished for. For had Klebold been alive to witness the utter devastation at the World Trade Centre on what would have been his 20th birthday, he would have been witness to the rebirth of his plans to strike a blow for Goths everywhere. Though had he been alive I’m sure we’d have seen the Twin Towers fall a good two years earlier. Not by the hands of Muslim extremists, but by the hands of two disturbed American teenagers. Goth terrorists whose ultimate ambition was to cause worldwide devastation.

For it was April 20th, 1999, on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday, that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two members of the Trenchcoat Mafia, had planned to carry out these attacks themselves. They posted these plans on the internet, on web pages and in online journals, in the hope that many other Goths would inspired by it. Their dream was to kill at least 500 of their classmates with two 20-pound propane bombs and their artillery of guns, before going on a bloody and murderous rampage attacking neighboring homes, climaxing in hijacking a 747 full of passengers and crashing it into the World Trade Centre. Their goal was to achieve a body count in the thousands. Their agenda was to create global chaos and genocide, as they hoped many Goths would look at their websites and see their disturbing ‘call to arms’, read their message of hate for mankind, and act. Join what they called their ‘revolution’, launching similar attacks on schools all round the World.

At about 11:10 AM on that fateful day Harris and Klebold arrived at Columbine High School. Their every move was meticulous planned, calculated and executed, yet on that tragic day in Columbine High School it seemed as though other forces were working against them. For less than 10 minutes into their plot their scheme began to unravel. The two 20-pound propane bombs they had planted in the cafeteria had been timed to go off at 11:17 AM during ‘A’ Lunch period. According to Harris’s notes this is when the lunch room would be most crowded. There were roughly 488 people inside the cafeteria at the time the propane bombs were set to detonate. They would have all been killed if the bombs had gone off as planned, and the library would have collapsed down onto the lunchroom due to the structural damage. Based on information in Klebold and Harris' home videos and writings it appears that they had intended to blow the school up, and then gun down any survivors who were able to escape after the bombs went off. But for some unknown reason the bombs failed to go off. After months of planning every detail, months of manufacturing and testing out bombs and explosive devices, practicing loading, shooting and handling weapons, on their final day all their evil work was about to come apart at the seams.

Tired of waiting, and knowing something was wrong as the bombs should have reduced the cafeteria to rubble by then, Harris and Klebold re-entered Columbine High School. Armed with two sawed-off shotguns, a duffel bag full of homemade grenades, Molotov cocktails and various explosive devices, a 9mm semi-automatic carbine rifle and a 9mm Tec-DC9 semi-automatic pistol, they opened fire. But their luck had run out, their guns jammed repeatedly, they tried and failed to detonate the two propane bombs, and the explosion they had set to go off in a field at the other side of town did not cause the distraction they had hoped, their dream was to come to an abrupt end. For within ten minutes the High School would be surrounded with armed Police Officers. Within twenty minutes SWAT would be in position. Around half an hour after entering the building both shooters would be dead, along with 15 of their victims. But it could have been a lot worse.
Their plans were crushed at the first hurdle as the Sheriff’s Department was well organized and fast to act. And this was just the beginning. Within 24 hours their websites calling for more violence were quickly shut down, their online journals removed, their message silenced swiftly, every trace of their online writings wiped out of existence. They failed not through lack of intent, but through lack of resources.

See, the thing that people seem to forget about the Columbine Massacre is that this wasn’t just another random High School shooting. This was a cold blooded and calculated act of terrorism. A declaration of war by Goths against normal decent society. If their plans had been carried out to their full and lethal extent we would have seen a strike against this great nation on par with 9 / 11, if not beyond it. For remember their original plan was not just to blow up their school and pick off the survivors. It was to also go on a shooting spree across neighboring homes and climax in hijacking a 747 and crashing it into the World Trade Centre. Imagine if on 9 / 11, as well as having planes strike the Twin Towers reducing the New York skyline to a deadly cloud of poisonous asbestos dust, that leading up to that catastrophe we also had Muslim extremists blowing up High Schools, rampaging across neighborhoods and gunning down innocent Americans. Because that’s the severity of the bloody revolution that Harris and Klebold planned for that day.

And if it had happened the way Harris and Klebold had calculated then it wouldn’t be the Al Qaeda that we fear, it wouldn’t be the Al Qaeda that are public enemy number one, it wouldn’t be the Al Qaeda that send a shiver of terror down our Nation’s spine. It would be Goths. And because it didn’t happen, doesn’t mean that Goths are any less of a threat than the men who did carry out 9 / 11. If anything I’d say they were more of a threat since they were the ones who thought up these attacks in the first place. And if they could dream up something as supremely evil as 9 / 11 what else are they capable of?

Was it on purpose then that Bin Laden chose Dylan's birthday as the date to carry out these attacks, as a mark of respect and admiration for the boy who gave him the ideas and inspiration in the first place? I have no doubt.

And even now we still feel the ripple effects of that evil day in Columbine High School. The exact number of copycat shootings in High Schools across not just America kept from the public to prevent distress, but thought to the in the hundreds.