Originally posted by JaTo:
I didn't mean to come off harsh (though I usually fail miserably), but I will not deny that I get jumpy about this stuff given our publicly known track record of prevention...
Think of it this way. If you live in certain major U.S. cities, I'm thinking that there's a 50% chance that there's an Al Qaeda cell operating or waiting to be activated within 20 miles of your home...
Scary, no?
Here's to hoping like mad I'm totally wrong.
Hey, no offence taken.
I'm just used to living with this (terrorism) a little more than Americans. Growing up in Ireland, you got used to the IRA/INLA/UVF/UFF/ etc blowing stuff up and shooting people all the time.
I was on a train once to Belfast that had a bomb on it. We were off the train it when it went off. Thankfully, no one was killed that time.