An Unpleasant Question

Aug 11, 2006 10:41

A thought occured to me as I read up on the latest on the thwarted terrorist plots in Britain ( Read more... )

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howdoyousolve August 11 2006, 17:30:25 UTC
Also, because I'm now thinking morbid thoughts, why do we hear reports of carbombs from every other major terrorist target except the United States?

I don't want to give them ideas, but can you think of a place with more cars, not to mention trucks?

Maybe intelligence is doing a better job than we think.

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agrumer August 11 2006, 18:14:22 UTC
Where have you heard reports of car/truckbombs outside of the Middle East?

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agrumer August 11 2006, 18:15:48 UTC
Oh, and Sri Lanka.

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howdoyousolve August 12 2006, 19:54:21 UTC
They were a huge favorite of the IRA.

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pennyfore August 12 2006, 18:37:06 UTC
To create a Tsunami?

I honestly don't know why they'd want to do it over the ocean, though I just figured they were going to set up the bombs once they hit land. And that it made the most sense doing it from Britain because no one would suspect it, and/or perhaps security was different. Plane hijacking's been done already in the US; maybe they figured it'd be easier overseas.

The whole "no liquids" policy just bugs me, from more than a practicality standpoint. You can use anything as a weapon if you get creative enough; there's really just no such thing as "perfectly safe". If one wants to create terror and devastation, he'll find a way to do it, independent of the government's extreme-actions-after-the-fact policy...

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