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Old 08-11-2006, 11:39 AM   #35
MaggieL
in the Hour of Scampering
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally Posted by Kitsune
I find it amazing, though, what a mere threat can do.
"How many mines does it take to close a chokepoint?"

"None, and one press release"
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune
If they really wanted to take lives, they would have strolled into the unsecure, now extremely crowded areas of Heathrow wearing explosives wrapped in ballbearings and pushed a button. Why do that when the effect of panic and fear without death is just as bad?
Because anything that happens on/with an airplane gets ten times as much publicity as it would otherwise.
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