This article covers one scenario.

It may happen this summer.


Bin Laden / Al-Qaeda Plant Dirty Bomb at Major League Baseball Game

Scenario: You and your 12 your old son are at a Major League Baseball game, sitting on the third base line, hoping to catch a foul ball from one of your favorite players.

It's the second inning, the sun is high in the afternoon sky, and suddenly something unexpected happens on the field below.

The pitcher falls to the ground.

The first baseman falls.

The second baseman falls. Third baseman. The umpire falls. The batter and catcher stumble, they fall.

The stadium is silent.

Then all hell breaks loose. Screams of terror. Chaos.

The entire stadium is in uproar, as people run from their seats looking for the nearest exit, scrambling and stomping on each other, and on small children who are in the way.

The sound of sheer terror, of 50,000 panicked baseball fans, who just watched their favorite baseball players drop dead on the field below, run for their lives.

We hope this never happens.

In the movie, The Naked Gun, (Paramount Pictures, 1988) a hypnotized Reggie Jackson during the seventh inning stretch, pulls a gun out from under first base, and is set to assasinate the Queen of England, who is there to watch.

What happened in the fictional story above is based on something similiar.

A groundsman, who works for the stadium, but is really an undercover Al Qaeda terrorist, planted radioactive material in the pitcher's mound prior to the start of the game (perhaps days before the start of the game), and has just unleashed it during the second inning of a Major League Baseball game.


What do you do if you're at a baseball game and this happens?

At one time, the best seats in the stadium used to be down by the field. However, in our day and age of looming terrorist threat, the best seats may either be behind your television set, safe at home, or if you really want to go to the game, perhaps a stadium seat on the upper level.

This way, if anything happens down on game level, you won't be anywhere near it.


Terrorists Attack Baseball Stadium with Remote-Controlled Plane

There's an even easier way to get a dirty bomb into a baseball stadium, and that's with a remote-control airplane. However, I'm sure this is one scenario that security teams have considered and there are probably numerous ways to spot a remote-controlled plane before it gets to the stadium; hopefully there's one or more snipers at hand ready to take it out, so you are never in danger inside the stadium.

Now, if one day you are at a baseball game and you suddenly see a remote-controlled plane fly into the stadium, don't hang around and wait for it to do some arial tricks; don't assume it's part of the show or simply an advertising gag.

Get out of your seat and run for the nearest exit.


Bio-Terror Attack at Baseball Game

Now getting a dirty bomb or radioactive material into a baseball stadium, and hiding it in a pitcher's mound might be a hard thing to do.

By now, hopefully there are security precautions in place that monitor every person who has access to a baseball field; as well as machines that detect radiation so a dirty bomb is detected before it can ever be detonated.

But what about a biological attack at a baseball game? Do we have the technology to detect this kind of thing?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how al-Qaeda would pull this off. News reports already point to alleged connections between al-Qaeda and MS-13 gang members and other Mexican organized crime figures.

Unfortunately, there are a large number of Mexicans who work at Major League Baseball stadiums (some who are going to either be MS-13 gang members themselves, or just have connections) and it only takes one person with access to a playing field to pull something like this off.


Preventing a Terrorist Attack at a Baseball Game