a quibble

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Carolyn Garner Siscoe wrote:
> 
> I disagree about the threat of new terrorist attacks being overblown.
> The bombings in Bali and the Philippines indicates that the threats are
> very much alive.

Carolyn,

Bali is in Indonesia which is predominantly Moslem and
which has a serious number of fundamentalist Moslem
terrorist movements. Likewise the Philipines have a
large Moslem agrieved minority with fundamentalist
tendancies.

Happily there are no such fundamentalist organizations
in the US although there may be some quite small
number of Moslems residing here under cover who are
bent on suicide. As I understand it some have been 
denounced to the authorities by American Arabs who 
do not share their fundamentalist views.

So it seems (to me) very unlikely that there will
be future terrorist incidents in this country,
and if something should happen it will certainly 
be nothing like the destruction of the twin towers 
which was a pure fluke based on the design flaws
of the buildings.

Mike