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I don't follow the Paris-Dakar rally very closely, but the one thing I do know about it is that you stay the course or you risk running into landmines. This is
by linsomniac 5y ago
I don't follow the Paris-Dakar rally very closely, but the one thing I do know about it is that you stay the course or you risk running into landmines.
This is notable because the explosion happened on the way from the hotel to the race course. I was confused until I read it happened on the way TO the race.
- sofixa 5y ago> I don't follow the Paris-Dakar rally very closely It shows :P It's now called only "Dakar rally", and hasn't had anything to do with Paris or Dakar for years. It had stints in South America and is now in Saudi Arabia, precisely because of the precarious security situation in Subsaharan Africa.
- sharken 5y agoNeither do I, as an example i thought the start and finish was fixed, but apparently the Paris-Dakar rally does not have to visit either city. A landmine sounds plausible, but i guess the knee jerk reaction is to assume terrorism. Even though it has been rebranded as the Dakar Rally, the current 10-year deal with Saudi Arabia all but guarantees that Dakar won't be a destination anytime soon. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1488041/saudi-arabia https://www.arabnews.com/node/1488041/saudi-arabia "The Saudi Arabia Rally" would be the proper name for this sad version of the original.
- sokoloff 5y agoLand mines seem to me to be terrorism, just done by people in military uniforms instead of civilian clothes.
- tremon 5y agoLand mines are used by people in civilian clothes as well, but those are usually called IEDs.
- shakow 5y ago> Land mines seem to me to be terrorism Depends what you do with them. If you drop them everywhere for the fun factor, sure. If they are but a part of a fortification complex, they are neither better nor worse than other military ordinance delivery systems.