[ExI] riots again

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 06/10/2012 19:18, Charlie Stross ha scritto:
> On 6 Oct 2012, at 18:01, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:


>> imagine if they had implicitly said that you can attack the USA at
>> will and there would be no negative consequences of any sort; there
>> would have been a 9/11 every month or something worse, possibly
>> much much worse.

> Disagree. I tend to think that 9/11 was a fluke; the Hamburg cell
> just got lucky. For a value of "lucky" that killed off everyone
> capable of launching such an attack -- they were ObL's elite
> specialists, and they were all expended in a single suicide raid.

In fact, nothing happened in Madrid, London, Mumbay and likes.
Or maybe these, also, were "lucky".

You miss the fact al Qaeda like to do spectacular attacks, but they are 
good at old types of attacks. Just give them enough freedom and they 
will try anything until it work.

This man, also, get lucky and got killed (he just wounded three agents 
in the process)
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/french-police-kill-man-in-anti-terror-raid-linked-to-attack-on-jewish-shop-1.468533

or the man before him, that killed a lot of Jewish children and a few 
France soldiers (Muslim traitors AKA not real Muslims in his eyes)
http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-kills-4-outside-jewish-school-france-101331556.html

Just how many attack would happen if the US and the rest of the Westerns 
had done nothing for the 9/11 attacks.


> Put it another way, Richard Reid is more typical of their regular
> rank and file. In a couple of decades' time circus clown troupes will
> be doing the terrorist routine in place of the keystone kops; first
> their shoes fail to explode, then their underpants fail to explode,
> then the wings won't even fall off the klown airliner ...

> (I'm hoping it goes this way. The last thing fanatics of any stripe
> can cope with is ridicule.)

Their Richard Reid kill and mayhem in a smaller scale whenever they are 
able to do so. Maybe nothing able to be written in a novel or enough to 
be written on newspapers or talked about in TV, but they do.

But they are a lot.

As someone wrote: "One stupid man is one stupid man, ten stupid men are 
ten stupid men, but one million stupid men are a political power".

Mirco