• GetOffMyLan
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    5 hours ago

    I remember when London was having Isis van attacks. One attack was on an almost empty street at like 2 o’clock on a Tuesday.

    I said at the time we’re lucky they’re fucking idiots. If they’d done that at lunch time or rush hour could have been 100s injured or killed easy

    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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      3 hours ago

      That’s almost always the case.

      Just think about airports. The planes themselves are highly protected, but everything before security is essentially public area. You could quite literally put a ton of explosives on one of those baggage carts, rolled it into a packed airport during holiday saison and blow up hundreds of people.

      It seems like very few terrorists are reasonably intelligent.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      or maybe they’re not idiots, maybe they were forced to do it but wanted to minimize damage.