its funny isn't it?

[petal1983]

As in funny in a way it so isn't

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[petal1983]

whoops. you see thats what getting all worked up does to me. i wasn't having a go at my flist, more pointing out the irony, i was just talking about communities with the american OMFG WE FEEL YOUR PAIN thingy

[petal1983]

not bitter per se, just annoyed at humanity and the way the West thinks their lives are more important than anyone elses

[petal1983]

yeah, i've narrowed it down to a Jihadi movement, the Kashmiri extremists have denied it, and the blasts came only hours after blasts in Kashmir itself, again suspected islamic extremists

[sallamino]

ummm your post was the first id heard about it....this is what i get for not paying attention. eep.

and about bloody time, but too little too late

[petal1983]

too little too late just about sums it up. even when the US Senator bloke was making his statement, it focused on "no convictions in five years", "no one being brought to justice" and a "waste of resources"

grr

[thatmakesmemad]

A better comparison would be with the spanish rail bombs. I suspect you'd find that no one posted anything when that happened either as it was in another country in a place where few had gone and had no friends or relations there so its less personal, less shocking.
At this moment in time many people around the world are being killed for no good reason in various conflicts (including Kashmir where only a few days ago grenades were thrown at a religious ceremony killing and injuring a number of people).
Pakistan currently supports the US and UK but even though its a hot bed of muslim agitators in the northern border regions there have been no major attacks aside from sectarian ones between different muslim factions that have been going on for ages.

[petal1983]

good point re the Spanish bombs, and yeah, my other beef was that so many people are killed in so many places, but the only ones that matter are the UK and USA, unless of course the USA provide the bombs the IRA use!

[thatmakesmemad]

hmm the US paid for them and the palestinians and libyans helped with training at various times which is novel.
911 was a novelty as it was the first non domestic terrorist attack in the US. Make that successful attack as they caught someone trying to drive explosives into the carpark of the two towers. Plus add in the nature of the attack killing one lot of people by killing another lot in the planes at the same time

[bigme]

was watching it on the news at college and we thought, "they'll be back working tomorrow"
That would be a great show of their stoicness if they were able to defy and defy the bombers and just get on with it.