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No.
They haven't won again.
The winning or not happens in the next days and weeks.

Initially, while the extent of the action and the precise nature of 
the delivery method" is not 100%  certain then prudent action is to 
over-react. That's not terrorists winning - that's fighting with 
terrorists. Travel chaos is just part of the cost of doing business.

The next stage is crucial. You either rapidly take note of what you 
have learned and move to open up the system again as much as is 
reasonably possible. They win if instead you go into catatonic navel 
gazing mode as, sadly, tended to happen after (and still, since) 
"911". Terrorists win when the reaction of the authorities is grossly 
more inconvenient and oppressive than the actions which cause them. 
Those like eg the IRA used to understand this well enough. What 'they' 
need to do now is to employ some average Israeli citizens as 
consultants :-). [[This comment has NOTHING to do with the 
unpleasantness going on on their northern border at present]]. There 
over the last few decades they have become so accustomed to living 
with ongoing terror threat, scraping up the bodies when they happen, 
and then getting on with life, that terror has become far less 
effective as a weapon against mass public opinion. And mass public 
opinion is what the terrorists are attempting to affect.


        RM


> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778615.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778771.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm

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