Runup To War? Precision Strike On Fiber Optics, Generators

WASHINGTON – Was a sniper attack on a power station’s transformer in San Jose, Calif., last year a prelude to future, perhaps larger, terrorist attacks on the vulnerable U.S. grid system?

That appears to be the consensus emerging from the attack that included a professional cutting of fiber optic lines and then shooting AK-47 rounds into the transformer of a PG&E Metcalf substation in San Jose.

The goal apparently was to cause the coolant to drain and the substation’s transformers to burn up and create a major blackout in the area.
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