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BINGO COLIN

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Not really that scary, Come on how many planes do you know that have been hijacked compared to the amount that fly per day. The chances of any of us being on a plane when it next happens are extremely remote

It is the same way the mind works when you are walking down a street and a gang of asians are walking towards you, you usually become very anxious. Theres no point with being terrifyed everytime you see a group of middle easten men on a plane. Its the way the media works and the image that is implanted on your brian day after day after day. Most people wont have ever even have been a victim of crime from a arab or muslim but are still scared of them

Do you get scared when you see a irish man in london? Why not? We have had a lot more terrorist attacks from the IRA than the middle easten terrorists

I think I'll just go and have another beer.......... :rolleyes: :D

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Originally Posted by Damien

i dont get it

Well all I did was start a thread about this interesting/scary story that I found in the Times newspaper and it's being pulled apart by the rabid pack of hounds that make up our membership.......so since I can't do anything about it, I'm having another beer :D

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Awwww there there Ramrod! :ghugs: :D
Can I have one too please? ;)

Free Beer? I want free beer! stop holding out on the free beer

Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh, Grolsh.......ahhhhhhh.....thats better :D

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

Can I have one too please? ;)

'Course you can dear :)

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Originally Posted by Damien

Do you get scared when you see a irish man in london? Why not? We have had a lot more terrorist attacks from the IRA than the middle easten terrorists

Non as prolific as 9/11 though.

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

I think I'll just go and have another beer.......... :rolleyes: :D

may i join you and let the rabid members get on with it , have one on me :beer:

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Non as prolific as 9/11 though.

I think by definition a suicide attacker has a maximum of one successful attack. Some IRA cells carried out lots of bombings.

This is actually a useful side-effect of a suicide strategy from the point of view of stopping it - the most talented and successful enemy end up dead first, thus lowering the quality. All you have to do is stop more people joining up. Shame we're operating a policy of persuading more people to join up.

For an "on the other hand" viewpoint of this story...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...268788,00.html

I've always thought it highly unlikely that none of the world's security agencies knew about the pending attacks on the World Trade Center. I just cannot accept that such attacks, which necessitated a great deal of planning over a long period of time, weren't foreseen :no:

It's sad that so much paranoia exists over terrorism because I honestly don't believe the threat is anywhere near as great as is it's made out to be, largely for political and financial purposes. My real fear is that in the name of counter terrorism our civil rights and liberties will be (further) erroded, with governments telling us that their latest anti-terrorism measures are necessary to protect our rights and liberties. Identity cards are the most obvious example.

Jacobsen uses the phrase ""aware" Americans" - I'd say that "paranoid and racist" is more accurate. It's interesting how quickly America has reverted to it's old racist ways - 30s Deep South, and post-Perl Harbour and the concentration camps for the Japanese. Assuming of course that it ever left it's old racist ways behind. The detail of Jacobsen's account shows that, from the moment she saw "14 Middle Eastern men" boarding the aircraft, she was in "seedy journalist" rather than "concerned American" mode.

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Originally Posted by From the Observer

'The notion that 14 saboteurs ... would boisterously proceed in and out of a plane lavatory, taking turns to construct a bomb, is so over-the-top ludicrous it deserves its own comedy sketch ... I half-expected her to tell me one of the men wore a cardboard sign labelled "terrorist",' Smith said.

:tu:

Here's the follow up to the original article...

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

Here's the follow up to the original article...

Nice one :tu:

You should try to remember that most Americans are very poorly educated as to the rest of the world. Their education system is very poor, even in comparrison to Britains current educational mess. They learn little or nothing about the rest of the world. Most Americans never leave the continental USA, and when they do its to bomb other countries in illegal wars. Or at the very least, they come to europe and insult us all by saying '' How Quaint '', very loudly.

Is it any wonder that the current Junta in washington find it so easy to make its citizens paranoid. :rolleyes: