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Surely it's also at least partly a show in order to make terrorists feel like they won't get away with it? It's easy to complain about airport security, but yo
by hugh 18y ago
Surely it's also at least partly a show in order to make terrorists feel like they won't get away with it?
It's easy to complain about airport security, but you gotta admit: terrorists seem to have more-or-less given up on targeting aeroplanes.
- mhb 18y agoIs that because of the show or some actual, intelligent counterterrorist work?
- Ardit20 18y agoOr is it because it would be stupid of them to target airoplains again. As the article mentioned, they are watching against what happened last weeks.
- lutorm 18y agoWell, considering we have a data set that consists of zero events/yr for decades except for 1 in 2001 and 1 in 2003? (shoe bomber, don't remember the year), I'd say we are firmly in the region of small number statistics and I'm very doubtful any meaningful inference can be made about what the rate itself if, let alone whether it's changed after 2001...