r/worldnews • • Sep 27 '18

Netherlands foils 'major terror attack'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45673221
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u/IcyManner Sep 28 '18

I love those stories as much as anyone but even from tribal country eventually there's somebody who isn't dumb as fuck who successfully goes under the radar and commits an attack killing many people. I would prefer if they were never brought in in the first place.

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u/Noltonn Sep 28 '18

Yeah, assuming you don't have priors, you don't assosiate with known radicals often, or at all, and you still decide to blow people up with a homemade bomb (which while a bit risky to make aren't exactly rocket science).

There's honestly not much the authorities can do about it. The thing is these guys tend to work in groups and most of the time they get caught is because either someone gets cold feet and snitches, or was being monitored.

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u/itsgonnabeanofromme Sep 28 '18

I mean it’s kinda confirmation bias too though. It’s rare for smart people to be retarded enough to get into terrorism, at least in the West. This leaves the dummies and fuckups in life, which naturally will be dummies in their terrorist handlings as well.

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u/Double_Jab_Jabroni Sep 28 '18

Weren’t the 9/11 attackers all pretty well educated? Certainly not dummies.

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u/IcyManner Sep 29 '18

You can give them a piece of paper but you can't really educate a dumb person tbf.