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Lloyd_Humph wrote:

Told you the car bombs were just warnings...

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

Check out GoddersUK's post. I've got an explanation there.

I'm sorry but your explanation/opinion is completely worthless and uninformed and frankly I feel stupider for having read it.

What possible advantage is there to a terrorist to allow their munitions to be found unexploded prior to a larger attack when they could just as easily detonate the earlier stuff and cause more death and destruction? None.

Sure, they are causing terror by saying "we could have killed you at any time"... but by doing so they are showing their hand and giving the good guys a good chance of capturing them, instead they'd be better off detonating the first stuff (more effect) or better yet not detonate anything and staying out of sight and not calling attention to themselves until after the larger attack(s)... lets not forget that terrorists are generally not keen on giving any kind of specific warning of their capabilities or targets... instead when they want to send a message with a bomb, they do their best to make sure it blows up.

I mentioned the IRA because they were one of those rare organizations who would give warning of specific attacks so that (in theory) civilians would have a chance to get clear... and we have not been seeing this tactic all that much (there are a couple of just a couple of cases in fact) from the terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan or the rest of Europe... so chances are they are not of the political sort (aka "we demand the release of all political prisoners" or "we demand the release members of _____ who are currently being held.")

Dr Herbie is correct... bomb making is not the easiest thing and a lot can go wrong in the process of building and properly detonating any kind of explosive device. If you are lucky and have access to unspent military ordinance (like what a good chunk of the IED's killing Iraqi civilians are based on)... it's a relatively simple matter (by comparison) to rig a couple weapons of war to blow up simultaneously in the trunk of a car... taking off the shelf parts and building your own is far more tricky.

k2t0f12d wrote:

And demand one barrel of oil per day from Mexico for each illegal alien found in the United States.