is the US teh only target of terrorist attacks??

[Ramo]

As a yank, I feel relatively safe wrt terror. It doesn't seem any more dangerous than the various other things that could kill me. After all, deaths due to terror made up only a tiny fraction of the number of people killed due to intentional violence in the US. Add in accidental deaths, etc., and terror becomes totally insignificant. It's irrational to feel unsafe due to terror alone.

[Bereta_Eder]

People engage in attacks against other people for things they have done to them.

it was always thus and always thus will be

hell take a look at what US/UK and Israel have done.

Is it really any wonder?

[Eli]

terrorist busts do not mean trheat on one's soil

In all these cases the terrorists were planning attacks on targets in those countries, not in the US or Israel.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by paiktis22
People engage in attacks against other people for things they have done to them.

it was always thus and always thus will be

hell take a look at what US/UK and Israel have done.

Is it really any wonder?

Well, gee, with that in mind, Paiktis, maybe Greece really should be on the look out for pissed off Balkan Muslims and their friends after all, hmm? Recent history has shown that Greek hands aren't exactly dishwasher clean when it comes to actions beyond their own borders.

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[Sandman]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Islamic terrorist networks are rather incompetant. So I'm not overly worried.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Sandman
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Islamic terrorist networks are rather incompetant. So I'm not overly worried.

Has Sept. 11, 2001, already slipped your mind? Or was that some sort of incompetent attack? Or irrelevant because it happened in the United States? Just curious, along with around 3,000 other (dead) people.

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[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Sandman
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Islamic terrorist networks are rather incompetant. So I'm not overly worried.

Ok i see you could answer my question that way. But that applies to the US too, at least post 9-11. what i meant to ask was do you fell targeted also, or do you think only the US, Israel and Australia are targeted. (of course Paktis has generously included UK along with the above 3, so i guess its academic as far as Brits are concerned)

[Sandman]

Has Sept. 11, 2001, already slipped your mind? Or was that some sort of incompetent attack? Or irrelevant because it happened in the United States? Just curious, along with around 3,000 other (dead) people.

It's my opinion that they were extremely lucky not to have been caught, given what they were up to in the flight schools.

Ok i see you could answer my question that way. But that applies to the US too, at least post 9-11. what i meant to ask was do you fell targeted also, or do you think only the US, Israel and Australia are targeted. (of course Paktis has generously included UK along with the above 3, so i guess its academic as far as Brits are concerned)

I sincerely doubt where I live would be targetted, given Scotland's relative obscurity and only average sized Muslim population.

[Bereta_Eder]

it wasnt only love that made me include the UK.
you're #3 target after US and Israel.
logically so considering you support the massacre of 500.000 people with the unparaleled enthusiasm of the acolyte.

[Bereta_Eder]

But I have to be fair. around 70% of Brits dont support a war without UN mandate, just your government.

this distinction dont mean much to the militant groups mind you.

Also Eli, the busted cells planed attacks on the US or at worst on US interests (NATO facilities, US banks etc)

[Sandman]

On the other hand, maybe they'll want to target Blair's hometown..... my town!

[Bereta_Eder]

Whats that muslim guy in the UK who says that they deplore the inocent victims of militant attacks but civilians are not the targets?

[Sandman]

Dunno, there's loads of them it seems.

[Bereta_Eder]

Its that guy with only one eye - he's blind i think on one eye (yes it makes for a lot of conjectures I know)

[Sandman]

"With his one eye and the two missing hands he says he lost while fighting in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation, Abu Hamza al-Masri is a distinctive figure. The Egyptian-born 45-year-old is a former nightclub bouncer and bodyguard who gained British citizenship in 1985 and embraced religion. Since then he has become one of the most controversial characters in the British Muslim community."