Terrorists would never attack subways or trains. Who ever heard of such a thing? [View all]

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August 4, 1974

San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy

A bomb explodes on the Italicus Express train. Responsibility was claimed by the neo-fascist terrorist organization Ordine Nero.

March 20, 1995

Tokyo, Japan

The Tokyo subway sarin attack, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件 Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken?), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on March 20, 1995 in Tokyo, Japan by members of the religious movement Aum Shinrikyo.

In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people, severely injuring 50 and causing temporary vision problems for nearly 1,000 others. The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, home to the Japanese government. It is the most serious attack to occur in Japan since the end of World War II.

March 11, 2004

Madrid, Spain

The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11-M) were nearly simultaneous, coordinated bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004 – three days before Spain's general elections and two and a half years after the September 11 attacks in the United States. The explosions killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. The official investigation by the Spanish judiciary found that the attacks were directed by an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell, although no direct al-Qaeda participation has been established. Though they had no role in the planning or implementation, the Spanish miners who sold the explosives to the terrorists were also arrested.

July 7, 2005

London, England

The 7 July 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks in central London, which targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour.

On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four British Islamist men detonated four bombs—three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, the United Kingdom's worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as well as the country's first ever suicide attack.

11 July 2006

Mumbai, India

The 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts that took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capital. The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains plying the Western line of the Suburban Railway network. 209 people were killed and over 700 were injured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_involving_railway_systems

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We cannot go back in time. We cannot undrop the bombs. We cannot unfire the missiles. We cannot uninvade Iraq, we cannot unvote for the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

I hope the Iraqi PM is a lying sack of shite. I hope that everyone who is essentially saying, "No problem. No one is going to attack trains or subways. They don't have the capability or desire" is right. I absolutely hope I am merely some blowhard paranoid asshole worried about imaginary boogeymen.

But bombing, and even gassing, trains and subways is not that far fetched. It has been done by terrorists of various ideologies several times in the past.

We have to deal with people who would deliberately harm the innocent, be they Islamic terrorists, right wing or left wing American terrorists, whoever they are and whatever they believe, in an effective manner.