http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40766858

 

Just goes to show that a 9/11 sized plot is still viable. Thank god they were stopped.

27 minutes ago, qwertyK said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40766858

 

Just goes to show that a 9/11 sized plot is still viable. Thank god they were stopped.

 

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Counter-terrorism police in Australia have stopped a suspected plot to bring down an aeroplane

 

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He said police did not yet have information on "the specific attack, the location, date or time", adding that he expected the investigation to be "long and protracted".

 

To be fair, there was zero information about the size of this planned attack.    The first quoted text indicates it was just a plot to bring down the plane, not crash it into a building.

 

There were a few things in the article I did want to mention:

 

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December 2016: A large police operation foils a terror plot to bomb landmarks in Melbourne on Christmas Day. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describes the plan as an "Islamist terrorist plot".

 

Although this might be proving my idea wrong.  Damnit.  I was hoping that just maybe the whole idea of a large terrorist attack was, oh, I don't know, not possible anymore.

 

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December 2014: Man Haron Monis, a self-styled cleric originally from Iran, takes 17 people hostage in a cafe in the centre of Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed after a 16-hour siege. A psychiatrist later tells an inquest into the siege that Monis had a severe personality disorder that enabled him to inflict huge harm on others.

 

I normally agree with psychiatrists, but lets not blame mental disorders for taking people hostage and killing them in cold blood.  Mental disorders can be terrible, but I will never believe that they can drive you to kill someone. 

Edited July 30, 20178 yr by Kallus Rourke

9 hours ago, Kallus Rourke said:

 

 

 

To be fair, there was zero information about the size of this planned attack.    The first quoted text indicates it was just a plot to bring down the plane, not crash it into a building.

 

There were a few things in the article I did want to mention:

 

 

Although this might be proving my idea wrong.  Damnit.  I was hoping that just maybe the whole idea of a large terrorist attack was, oh, I don't know, not possible anymore.

 

 

I normally agree with psychiatrists, but lets not blame mental disorders for taking people hostage and killing them in cold blood.  Mental disorders can be terrible, but I will never believe that they can drive you to kill someone. 

Well, not deliberately crashed into a building but if it was brought down onto a major city it could create devastation. Australia's terror attacks have seemed to be very basic in the past and have only ever resulted in the death of one or two people - some recent hostage taking and the siege before.

 

There will always be loopholes, and terrorists will simply find ways to work around them. They might start using trains to kill people instead of planes and cars, etc. I know there was talk of eletrification of the UK rail system but it was put on hold. One reason against it would be that terrorists could hack it and crash them. Large scale terrorist attacks have happened recently like Paris (I call it large scale) but I honestly doubt we'll see another attack with as many fatalaties as 9/11 - fingers crossed, I seemed to think the UK were pretty good at stopping terrorists until the Manchester bombing.