Moscow Bombing

From the BBC:
"Moscow Metro bombing masterminds 'will be destroyed'"

This morning bombs went off in several stations in the Moscow Metro. I have travelled the Metro many times and can only image what the scenes were like. Even on non-rush hour times the stations are jammed packed with people. I heard that an average 7 million people take the Metro everyday. This is not the first or even the second terrorist attack on the Metro and yet the Russians haven't really done anything to prevent them. I know that you can't always stop a suicide bomber but governments should at least try to.

It seems the same group of people are at it again. The movement for racial profiling has just moved closer to becoming a reality. While I know that some people that don't fit the profile will become terrorists in the last 10 years all the major terrorist attacks around the world (the US, UK, Spain, Russia, Israel, India, etc) have been carried out by Middle Eastern/Asian Muslims, both men and women. More needs to be done to keep track of the potential terrorists. All too often after an attack you hear that governments had knowledge of a group or person and yet did nothing to prevent the killings (as was the case with the man who killed the American soldiers at Fort Hood.)

People and governments should not overlook the facts that stare them in the face just because they want to be PC. Suicide bombers/hijackers aren't being PC when they kill innocent men, women and children. We can still live in a free society and curb the would-be actions of terrorists - it just takes a strong government with intelligent people who are willing to stop things before they go too far (ie follow-up and stop the terrorists before they can carry out their plans.)

People around the world, not just in Russia, need to understand that these terrorists will not stop until they are forcibly stopped. Some people may want to live in their little "bubbles" and pretend that these things do not happen, but that denial will not keep us safe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8593961.stm