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Personally, if I'm a terrorist group, I'm not targeting planes at this time.

Posted by JaxSean (aka JaxSean) Nov 16 '10, 09:45

Why try to squeeze something by a plane search when there's plenty of buses and subways/rail that don't have a stringent security?

(My point is it's all fear based - people are screaming because their fear is displaced. Planes start blowing up again, and yep, strip searches are fine and dandy.)

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I travel on mass transit more than most and I'm amazed they haven't gone after buses or trains. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 16, 09:51 25
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  - If you consider body count, maybe. But I think the real target is fear, death is just a means to that. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:58 1
    - agreed. This is why anthrax is a better bioweapon than, say, a specially engineered flu. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:00
  - Screw that - shopping mall the week before Thanksgiving. The country would lose its *shit*. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 09:56
  - spreading fear is spreading fear though. If people are afraid to get on a bus win for the bad guys -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:53 7
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      - now, but if they torch a couple and blow up 5 or 6 I bet that would change quick -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:56 5
        
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        after a few actual bombings, the sane ones *would* be scared. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:01
        
        People didn't stop flying. But it would definitely change things, security wise. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 10:01 1
        
        actually they did stop flying. air travel fell off. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:03
        
        Key word....sane -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 10:00
- this. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:52
- pssst. they have. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:52 11
  - in the US? -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:52
  - in the US? -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:52 9
    - how soon we forget. A plot to attack NYC subways was thwarted this year. -- (link) - loosilu Nov 16, 09:54 7
      - good point. - Mel Profit Nov 16, 10:02 1
        
        Transit fits multiple needs: Large number of people, very disruptive, very dramatic. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:05
      - fwiw, that subway map is horribly outdated. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 09:58
      - So, it didn't happen? -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:56 3
        
        It didn't, but they planned on it. It's very attractive. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:59 2
        
        I forget, remind how for they had actually gotten in the planning process? - znufrii Nov 16, 10:00 1
        
        seems pretty detailed. they had picked a time, station, and trains. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:03
    - heh, 1 second -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:53
Honestly? Another plane goes down, and watch a few airlines fail. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:48 1
- This too. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:49
you're a lousy terrorists, because clearly they have not given up on planes. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:47
this. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:46 12
- those explosives that flew out of Yemen just last week ... what was that? -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:48 11
  - It was not on people? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:49 2
    - luggage gets inspected too. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:50 1
      - Yes. Maybe to clarify, I mean "strapping bombs on people on commercial passenger planes." -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:56
  - Cargo planes though. Which shows, perhaps, that they can't get on passenger planes -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:49 7
    - The Nigerian guy managed. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:50 6
      - Which, oddly, is a different country than Yemen. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:51 5
        
        which is irrelevant. there are many airports with lax security around the world. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:52 4
        
        You've traveled outside the country. You know that the UK, US, etc all make you go back through security locally. - ty97 Nov 16, 09:55 3
        
        I agree with you. However, I don't believe for a minute that planes are a less attractive target now. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:58 2
        
        I think they'd love to get on planes still. But I think it's a lot harder now, so they could look elsewhere -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 10:00 1
        
        fair point. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:05

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