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Originally Posted by Seti
Well um I didn't realise the Bali people were all Middle Eastern. Please correct me if I am wrong, being a female we're all used to that  But didn't they find out that the people who massacred the individuals in the Bali bombing were actually BALIANS who supported Al'Qaeda ? Wasn't there a Balian Islamic cleric arrested for that ? Did it have anything to do with the Middle East continent apart from the ties to Al'Qaeda ?
Let's remember as well at first news reports regarding Madrid were saying that an extreme SPANISH group managed to blast the trains. Suddenly, it was changed to oh it was Al'Qaeda. They are still unsure whether it was or not and the burden of proof is not on myself but the Spanish government to prove it.
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The point I was trying to make is that there have been terrorist attacks since 9/11.
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Originally Posted by Graham
But the Security Services (remember them? Those wonderful people...) allegedly had *plenty* of warnings that an attack like September 11th was going to happen, yet they were unable to stop those attacks.
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OK, so in future should they react to warnings? And then be criticised if there is no subsequent attack? Or should they ignore warnings and hope nothing happens? It can't be both ways.
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Originally Posted by Graham
The number of people killed on September 11th is approximately the same number killed on the USA's roads in *one month* and resulted in a massive downturn in people using air travel, even though there were huge increases in security.
The number of people who died in rail accidents such as Paddington or Hatfield are the equivalent of a couple of *days* deaths on the roads in the UK, but they caused a lot of people to decide to stop using trains and, instead, go back to road travel *even though* they would actually be less safe.
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There is a difference: 9/11 deaths were caused deliberately.