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Tony Polson · July 22nd 05, 10:56 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

(Neil Williams) wrote:
[1] Difficult with suicide bombers, of course. That said, the
security measures some people are suggesting might stop people being
blown up in Tube trains. It won't stop them being blown up while
waiting in a queue for security outside a busy Tube station, for
example, and it won't stop a suicide van bomb in the middle of Oxford
Street on a Saturday afternoon. If one avenue is closed to the
terrorists, they'll simply find another.

Football matches, cinemas, department stores, supermarkets,
restaurants, educational institutions ... they are all easy targets
for terror.

Slightly less easy, but very vulnerable to small airborne attacks with
light aircraft are ... our nuclear power stations.

Plus there are dirty bombs - nuclear devices that release massive
radiation rather than powerful explosions, chemical and biological
weapons of all kinds. They can be detonated almost anywhere.

So was it worth going to war in Iraq, Mr Bliar?