8/12/2006

Terrorists attack


Terrorists attack
   Is it a new reality or something that existed before the 20th century? How can we prevent terrorists from attacking several “aims” and killing innocent people?
   Even though the answers to these questions may seem easy or at least not too difficult to answer, if we consider that so many people from so many secret services that have tried to solve this problem have failed, then it becomes one of the greatest problems of the 21st century.  
   After the attack in 09/11/2001 in New York that was the first of a number of lethal attacks (that most people remember of)  the U.S. president George Bush, C.I.A.  and N.S.A. have been thriving to prevent another attack. They may have achieved it at least in their country but other countries have suffered from lethal terrorist attacks.The first attack that resulted in many casualties in Europe was in Madrid in 2003 and the last (known) was last year in London.
   Today (08/10/2006) MI5, which is a secret service in England, discovered after several months of search that some people tried to put bombs in ten aeroplanes going to U.S. cities and detonate them  all together.It would have been the worst ever terrorist attack.  After discovering it there was red alert t every international aeroport and especially in those that had some planes going to England. All flights for England were cancelled and noone new if they were going to fly and when. Even if the plan was discovered by MI5 terrorists “achieved”  to panic and “wake up” all secret servicies of  England, U.S. and many other countries. Millions of people have been waiting for hours in the aeroports hoping that they will be allowed to ariive to their destination as soon as possible.  Specialists say that this attack reminded them of an attack, which was again discovered before it was planned to happen, in 1993.
   What most people and especially the younger ones do not know is that terrorist attacks are not a “new phainomenon” and that many attacks took place before 2001 and some of them were successful while others weren’t. In 1985 a plane going to India exploded and about three hundred people died. Also, in 1988 an aeroplane going to U.S. expoded and more than two hundred people died.
  
  

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