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Posts Tagged ‘terrorism’

The Supreme Leader plans to stop direct flights from Yemen to the UK. That’ll stop ‘em.

Trouble is, banning direct flights only really works if there are only two countries in existence.

Prince Muhammad bin Nayef of Saudi Arabia, on surviving a recent suicide bomb attack on him, in his office:

“he surprised me by blowing himself up”

Yes. I guess that would be a bit of a surprise. Incidentally, the perpetrator had hidden explosives in his, erm, rectal cavity and ‘activated them remotely’.

Joel Anderson, Republican assembly member, wants virtual globe services to blur potential targets:

“It struck me that a person in a tent halfway around the world could target an attack like that with a laptop computer…There’s got to be some common sense.”

Anderson is introducing a bill to enforce virtual map services (like Google Earth) to blur potential targets, such as schools, churches, government buildings, medical facilities and nuclear power stations.

Here’s what security blogger Bruce Schneier had to say about it:

The following three things are true about terrorism:
One, the number of potential terrorist targets is infinite. Two, the odds of the terrorists going after any one target is zero. And three, the cost to the terrorist of switching targets is zero.

Naive activist and Amnesty International vocal chord Tom Parker told the BBC:

“These are criminal acts. Torture is illegal under American law, it’s illegal under international law. America has an international obligation to prosecute the individuals who carry out these kind of acts.”

International law is a fantasy; it’s whatever the biggest boys in the playground say it is.