religion of peace followers spreading love at brussels airport

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[karasu]

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[Molly]

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[Golem]

Wow, this is closer to me than I would like. Brussels airport often flies to Prague. Good thing I live in a town of 11k people. I think noone would bomb my town, but clearing it with AKs would be super easy, because our cops are are even worse than those US stereotypes with donuts. 

[WarLord]

Danke Mutti 

[darmaster]

I really don't know what to think at this point :/

[Gravoth_iii]

I really don't know what to think at this point :/

Dont, follow the general consensus of the media.

[Rico]

Wow, this is closer to me than I would like. Brussels airport often flies to Prague. Good thing I live in a town of 11k people. I think noone would bomb my town, but clearing it with AKs would be super easy, because our cops are are even worse than those US stereotypes with donuts. 

The authors of the book "Freakonomics" made a thought experiment about terrorism. They asked their readers which form of terrorism would be the cheapest to execute, the hardest to stop, and the most fear-inducing. The discussion was supposed to help security planners with their preparation for potential threats.

Ideas included to shoot guns out of car windows on several rural places in different regions of a country at the same time. The unpredictability and arbitrariness of targets increases the fear factor. The coordination ensures a certain count of simultaneous victims which is perceived as a greater shock than slow killings spread over a long time period. The weak infrastructure in rural areas decreases the risk of conviction. The cheap materials make it a low-investment enterprise despite the aforementioned "high rewards".

Such a thing is fundamentally impossible to prepare against.

As a sidenote, the discussion attracted a lot of negative publicity. Many were offended by the very idea of such a thought experiment. Some people seriously seem to think the best way to prevent terrorism is hushing up. It's not like the hardest part of executing terrorism is hatching the idea...

[Kafein]

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To clear things up: the picture of the bombed train shows the back of one train and the orange bit is the head of the following one. The green/yellow square is not correctly placed in the right image, as that window in the left image is the first window after the first door, from left to right.

[Piok]

Technology is responsible.
Today we have toys which are on par with 70s best spy equipment.
All in reach to normal customer for reasonable prices only slight problem is access to explosives.
Terrorist groups are not very aware of this technological possibilities yet.
But for how long?
Just imagine how deadly could be drone + GPS + plastic exp. combo.
Just leave it somewhere on roof of building and it will auto pilot itself to designated square to plausible high for best fragmentation effect and then
All in designated time maybe few days or weeks after it was put to rest on roof.

My guess is that new fashion trend for near future will have name of Kevlar 

[bruttus]

From what I see on the news, in Zaventem airport two suicidebombers , a 3rd is able to escape , 14 dead, 81 wounded, in Brussels itself 20 dead and 55 wounded.

For now , I'm far from afraid , but I am furious.

Edit: I live 60km away from Brussels

[Harpag]

Condolences for all Belgians.

[karasu]

Technology is Humans are responsible.

ftfy

Crap like this always happened, and always will as long as "we" as a race exist. Such an easily corrupted being.

[Christo]

Technology is responsible.

[ecorcheur_brokar]

*DISCLAIMER - I in no way think this is a good idea and would hate any government that chooses to operate this way*

Purely as a thought experiment, it depends on your definition of 'prevent terrorism'.

It wouldn't stop the attacks themselves necessarily, but the entire impact of these attacks (unless costing millions in damages to infrastructure) is the exposure. How could a terror organisation that's trying to be elusive possibly be able to compete with a system that can 100% hide the occurrence of a terror attack, completely mislead the populace as to the impact and lead people's expectations moving forwards. You cant spread terror if nobody reports your futile little suicide-bombings.

Also, an argument may be made that operating in this way would reduce the number of suicide bombings. I imagine that in order to suicide bomb civilian targets, you need to be pretty damn sure that your sacrifice will accomplish something greater. If you are faced with the reality that nothing you do will even make the local papers you'd need some *serious* brainwashing to believe that your bombing will achieve anything.

I just find it an interesting concept. I guess we'll know whether or not that would actually work the moment Russia starts being a global target for terrorist organisations.

The problem would be that news would be carried out by social media and rumours which would probably inflate even more the importance of the attacks. Plus numerous false rumours which could lead to a perception of even more attacks than there is actually.

You can witness the bad effects of distrust in official media and the use of popular rumours as reliable informations in some african countries like the ebola outbreak in Liberia, where people were thinking that ebola was a governement conspiracy or tourist killing in Madagscar when they believe they are part of organ traffic.