Hi Alex,


The terrorists must now perceive that elections and troop
deployments can be influenced by indiscriminate attacks on innocent
"soft"
targets.

Then I hope the terrorists are better informed than most people in
this group.

You are not really thinking this to be remotely possible, are you? The
average terrorist does not posess much more information about world
affairs than what his leaders choose to tell him. While OBL might be
aware of the political situation in Spain and the little support the
military involvement had already before the attack, his troops
certainly only "know" exactly what was stated above: The attack got the
spanish troops out of Iraq, because we frightened them proper. It was a
great victory for holy Islam.

A very bad thing.

What I percieve is that a lot of people in the US can't face that
they
are the target because that would mean they did something to deserve
it, and that seems to be unthinkable.

What makes you think, that if someone is a target, it definitely means,
he deserves it???

If you are shot by a criminal, you obviously deserve it?? Now that's a
strange kind of logic.

regards,
Friedrich