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CIAO DATE: 12/5/2006
Terrorism's Enablers
David Frum
August 2006
Abstract
The war on terrorism demands that we focus not only on terrorists abroad, but also those who--by making excuses for them--aid and abet terrorism at home.
Attention nervous flyers: don’t think you can escape the terrorists by taking the train.
On July 31, an alert German train conductor spotted an abandoned suitcase on a regional train as it passed through the city of Dortmund, in western Germany. That same day a similar suitcase was found near Koblenz, in the German south. The two suitcases contained bottles of gasoline, propane gas, and detonators--a deadly effective firebomb that could have killed or horribly burned hundreds of travelers. The bombs were wired to explode at the same time, with at least as much force as the 7/7 bombings in London.