Blog Entry 8

Do you not think after all of the terrorism and mass murder that has occurred throughout the past few years that the groups of terrorists would stop forming and try to find peace in the world? I know I do, and I also know that is not the case. Not even close.

10 years after the Bali bombings, local militants in Indonesia still pose a threat. Even after security forces arresting and killing off almost 800 people that they thought to be militants, the groups keep forming and creating more chaos. "In the 10 years since Islamic militants blew up two nightclubs on the resort island of Bali, killing 202 people, Indonesian security forces have arrested more than 700 people on suspicion of being militants and killed around 60. All the major suspects believed to have participated in the Bali attacks on Oct. 12, 2002, have been killed or imprisoned. Analysts say operations by Detachment 88, the elite U.S.- and Australian-trained counterterrorism squad formed shortly after the Bali blasts, have helped cripple Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian offshoot of Al Qaeda responsible for the bombings. But while the security forces’ efforts and internal rifts have left Jemaah Islamiyah weakened, some disaffected individuals and members of vigilante groups have moved to form new cells and seek new recruits." With the training that came right after the attacks, the groups only became stronger and more dominant. Their skill sets are sometimes beyond what we can handle and fight. What it all boils down to is the Qaeda-like groups just want revenge. That want back what was once theirs. 

I have mentioned in previous posts that terrorism is all around us. I want to reinforce that. Although we think some are not intelligent enough to make their own bombs and to sell drugs and to create chaos around the country, there are so many people out there that will turn their back on the country in an instant. Weapons of mass destruction are becoming easier to make, which causes not only our country, but countries all around the world to be in harms way. Whether it is for revenge or for absolute carelessness, some people could bomb their own neighborhoods without even taking a second thought. It is scary, but it is true.

The world needs to find a better way to hide weapons and to find more ways to make getting items to make weapons harder and harder. If the world keeps allowing easy access to such harm, our world will go into an infinite total war. We need to save ourselves from what can become the end of the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/world/asia/10-years-after-bali-bombings-local-militants-still-pose-threat.html?ref=terrorism&_r=0



Date: 10/19/12
Time: 2:29 pm