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Re:Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance by happyscrappy on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:07PM (#8841159)
>As a terrorist, you have no reason to fly stuff into buildings if you know it won't buy you anything.

All that it has bought them is death. Their goal was to take down the US and it tremendously backfired, but we kind of squandered that goodwill. If they want to make money they kidnap Europeans who they know will pay the ransom.

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Re:Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance by TeMPOraL on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:14PM (#8841209)
US apparently seems to be taking itself donw just fine.

> If they want to make money they kidnap Europeans who they know will pay the ransom.

That's not terrorism, that's garden variety kidnapping for ransom.

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