Sabotage Spy Ops = Al Queida 9-11
I see 9-11 as a economic sabatoage spy-op as well as morale-busting and terror.
Go play some 4X games (exluding galciv2 which apparently censored out sabotage spy-ops). Master of Orion 2, Space Empires IV, and Master of Orion 3. Every time your spies blows up a research center or stock exchange, you’re doing, in a very non-graphic and abstract form, what al-queida did on 9-11. In SEIV has the most to choose from for emphasis (crew snafus, ship bombs, etc..), including planary scale sabotage that kills millions if not billions of people and degrades habitability. But MOO3 has the highest realism level (but still very abstract) for internal politics and infiltration / internal security.
The CIA probably was smarter in central america, but they were in a way, attempting to turn the entire countrys’ citizenry into anti-communist gurilla-contra-terrorists. Iraq-Iran-Aghanistan-Pakistan are the ultimate result of USA attempt to create russian killing drones. It backfired into 9-11.
CIV2 though by no means a highly realistic spy system, allows you to plant and detonate nukes in enemy cities. One could float one in on a ship or a cargo plane with little or no deviation from course and pakistan has nukes and they hate america. Their totalitarian american-puppet goverment is not representative of its people and their is much curruption and much of that curruption is anti-american and america certainly does get milked of a lot of money with bits of fraud and deception here and there, especially with al-queida.
