XPost: alt.fan.furry, rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: chakatfirepaw@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:00:53 -0400, sanjian wrote:   
      
   > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >> And this is another reason I don't worry about terrorists. Amateurs,   
   >> all of them.   
   >   
   > Which, of course, means that they can't do any real damage or take real   
   > lives.   
      
   Most of the time that's exactly right.   
      
   Look at suicide bombers in Afghanistan:  Here the two, by far, most likely   
   outcomes of an attack.   
      
   The bomber blows himself up, nothing else of note.   
   The bomber blows himself up along with several of his buddies, nothing   
   else of note.[1]   
      
      
   The _skilled_ terrorists are notable for their ineffectiveness and very   
   few are skilled, (the FLQ is more the norm[2]).   
      
      
   [1] They have this habit of hugging each other before one goes out on his   
   final journey.   
      
   [2] Canadian group from c1970, to fight for Quebec independence they blew   
   up a significant number of mailboxes and planned to destroy the Statue of   
   Liberty.[3][4][5]   
      
   [3] Yes, that's in the US.   
      
   [4] Yes, she's from France.   
      
   [5] To their credit, they did figure out that this was the wrong target   
   before actually doing anything.   
      
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