In Reply to: yes to notes posted by Chris on Thursday, 7. June 2007 at 02:13 Bali Time:
and legends work right? This is a good example of one of those.
snip<Rumours about terrorists who tip their hands to members of the general public aren't grounded in reality - they are expressions of fear about events that might unfold told in story form. Through them, voice is given to a latent sense of inevitability that might or might not end up caught in them because the potential cost of a warning - the disruption of their schemes - is deemed far too high. Terrorists view those who die as collateral damage, and although they may regret a particular death more than another, the potential for that regret does not sway them, not even to the pint of issuing a small caution to an especially favoured innocent.
Thus there is no kindly terrorist who unbent enough to warn one away from harm's way - all there is, is fear.
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Barbara Mikkelson 'Judged Dread'