In Reply to: We all understand how urban myths posted by chickchili on Thursday, 7. June 2007 at 08:42 Bali Time:
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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
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more harm is to come. In real life terrorists do not share their plans with those who
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'
sorry, I usually try to make a bit of sense