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'Low-Cost Terror' Is a New Reality for Europeans
Channel News Asia ^ | 19 Aug 2017

Posted on 08/18/2017 1:26:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Vehicle attacks of the sort seen in Barcelona are easy to organise and difficult to stop and have become part of a new reality for Europeans, experts say.

Paris, Berlin, Nice, London and Stockholm have already seen extremists drive vehicles into crowds. The latest attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils left at least 14 dead and 100 injured on Thursday night. The atrocities by extremists willing to die carrying out an attack are likely to lead to a rash of new security measures designed to protect pedestrians. But experts warn that citizens' safety cannot be guaranteed 100 per cent.

"It's the principle of 'soft targets'," Frederic Gallois, the former head of France's elite GIGN police force, told AFP. "Any gathering of people is a soft target and there are crowds everywhere."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; islam; jihad; terror

1 posted on 08/18/2017 1:26:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Islamic terror has become such a fact of everyday life - no one is even talking about Barcelona today, a mere 24-36 hours after the fact.

Its no big deal.

Europe sucks.


2 posted on 08/18/2017 1:29:17 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway
Vehicle attacks of the sort seen in Barcelona are easy to organise and difficult to stop and have become part of a new reality for Europeans, experts say.

It would be easy to stop if our "rulers" wanted to stop it. They don't. Terrorism keeps the little people in check.

3 posted on 08/18/2017 1:30:00 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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Notice the cities not attacked. Warsaw, Praque, Budapest etc... I wonder why?


4 posted on 08/18/2017 1:32:03 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (Covfefe Trump!)
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"Notice the cities not attacked. Warsaw, Praque, Budapest etc... I wonder why?"

Perhaps because nobody goes there?
grin

5 posted on 08/18/2017 1:37:32 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: nickcarraway
A reality for Western Europe.

It is politically incorrect to say so, but Eastern Europe seems to have adopted a solution. Namely don't let people into your country who pledge allegiance to a political philosophy that requires them to kill non-members.

On the local TV here the newscasters were agonizing on how you could possibly stop such murderous events ....
It is Islam - don't let it take root in your Country. The West would rather commit suicide than be accused of 'intolerance'.

6 posted on 08/18/2017 1:37:42 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Perhaps because nobody goes there?

You've obviously never been to Prague. The Charles Bridge is jam packed with tourists all hours of the day.

7 posted on 08/18/2017 1:38:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Perhaps because nobody goes there?

You've obviously never been to Prague. The Charles Bridge is jam packed with tourists all hours of the day.

8 posted on 08/18/2017 1:38:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Sigh, just get used to it, keep welcoming refugees.... sure, the frog pot is hot, but hey.


9 posted on 08/18/2017 1:38:54 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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They don’t want to face the fact that there is no way to eliminate Islamic terror without getting Muslims to leave.


10 posted on 08/18/2017 1:39:26 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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Free society had a chance to end terror days after 9/11. Quite the opposite has happened as terror has adjusted and Western Society has gradually rotted away by PC and Islam.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 1:46:58 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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> Perhaps because nobody goes there? <

No Islamists, that’s for sure. It’s all about the Hungarian border fence. Interestingly enough, wealthy (and wise) Germans have been fleeing Merkel’s Reich the last few years, and relocating to Hungary.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 1:49:01 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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And Islam has nothing to do with race. The West is committing suicide for the error of claiming Islam is a race.


13 posted on 08/18/2017 1:56:48 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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Agreed.

A-OK with Arab Christians. Not OK with Muslim Bosnians.
I am also probably OK with Amahni (sp?) Muslims, who if I understand correctly, reject a literal interpretation of the koran, and just hold to a 'love thy neighbor as thyself' creed. Of course they are declared heretics by mainstream muslims.

14 posted on 08/18/2017 2:12:55 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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I was in London within the last month and near Parliment and the London Bridge, they have steel bollards between the sidewalk and the road that are massive enough to stop a vehicle.

I was in Edinburgh Scotland during the fringe festival and they had massive concrete barricades at the entrances to closed streets where plays and activities were taking place.

If a city is willing to designate pedestrian only areas or has wide sidewalks where strong bollards can be placed there is a lot that can be done to keep vehicles and pedestrians apart.

The only problem is that the next step will be truck bombs.

15 posted on 08/18/2017 2:16:34 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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[[’Low-Cost Terror’ Is a New Reality for Europeans]]

It’s a reality and how they operate.
All they had to do is watch Israel’s news any day of the week to realize this.

Oh but wait , they have made excuses for them all these years they have been using the same tactics against Israel. They have insisted that Israel bow to them and hand them their land. They have insisted that Israel not fight back against them because it’s their own fault they have Islamic troubles.

I think the Europeans should take their own advice and hand their lands and the properties over to their muslim invaders. Why not ? If they think it will appease them in Israel it should appease them in France , Spain , England and Germany too. /sarcasm

Liberals never learn . They are special and because they do something and have the so called right reason they will do it better and get a different result .

What is so hard for them to understand about if you bring murderers , thieves , rapist and pedophiles into your neighborhood that they will kill your neighbors , rape their offspring and steal their property . Oh but it’s so loving to bring them in . Quick change your Facebook picture to a rainbow and you will feel like you did something for the victims and that will make it all better . MORONS !


16 posted on 08/18/2017 2:19:11 PM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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I have said for years that if they wanted real terror to do small attacks at malls, schools, public events.

You can choose to not go to large terror targets like the WTC and most of us can choose not to fly. You can't stop shopping or sending your kids to school.

17 posted on 08/18/2017 4:29:32 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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