New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion

Re:New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion by Xylakant on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:59AM (#24281999)

> ..., Germany all had unprecedented terror attacks in the years since 9-11.

Germany hasn't - we've had much worse terror attacks in the years before 9-11. I'll just mention the Oktoberfest attack or the attack on the munich olympic games. In terms of collective scare, the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion) far eclipses any terror risk after 9-11. Even today, more people get killed by Nazi supporters than other terrorists.

We still have put a lot of restrictive measures in place, but it's more that 9-11 and terrorism act as a convenient leverage to impose those measures and not the actual danger.

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Re:New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion by waffle_ss on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:13AM (#24282134)

Germany had a role in the 9/11 attacks by letting the Hamburg cell slip under their radar

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Re:New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion by Communitivity on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:29AM (#24282259)

By that reasoning you might say the US had a huge role in 9/11 because the Bin Laden issue station failed to identify and prevent his attacks. I wouldn't say that, they did the best they could with the budget they had, and the approvals they were (or weren't) given.

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Re:New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion by waffle_ss on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:17PM (#24285462)

I'm responding to the Europeans who want to wrap 9/11 (and further, Islamic terrorism) into a tidy "America's problem" package when it clearly isn't

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