The guy next door

Centralising anti-terrorism schemes means we lose vital preventative information Measured in fatalities and injuries, the worst terrorist attacks have been in New York, Al-Qataniyah (Iraq), Al-Adnaniyah (Iraq), Abadan, Beslan, Bombay (1993), Nairobi, Dar es Saalam, Beirut, Ben Talha (Algeria), Ami Moussa (Algeria), Mecca, Sidi Moussa (Algeria), Hais Rais (Algeria), Kuta, Baghdad, Mumbai (2006), Moscow, Oklahoma, Sophia, Anuradhapura, Karachi, Manila, Colombo, Kandahar and so on. Within India, in addition to Mumbai, we have Coimbatore, Srinagar, Delhi, Jammu, Varanasi, Malegaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad, not to mention Surat. Given terrorist objectives, attacks work when there is a concentration of people. The Akshardham temple, Sankatmochan Mandir (Varanasi) and Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad) follow the same... [read full story]