Well, everyone keeps saying that another terrorist attack will occur in the near future. Do you think it will happen? Do you think it will happen soon? What do you think will happen? Where do you think it will happen?

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Israel? Iraq? Saudi Arabia?

Maybe all three. I'd be surprised if there wasn't an attack in one of these countries within the next week...

I would say within a year something (bigger) will happen.

And Great Britain hasn't had its share of the damage yet, so maybe it's next. USA is also nowadays always a valid target.

If I was a terrorist, I would surely look forward to the olympics even though the security is top notch....

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You're right (esp. with regard to Israel and Iraq). Do you think either Europe or the US will be an imminent target? Or do you think that Europe and the "war President" have things under control?

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I doubt that the olympics will be a target as too many muslims will participate. It also is a celebration of peace. Even in ancient times, wars stopped for the olympics... and the 1972 killings in Munich weren't celebrated anywhere and did not meet their goal...

The US is unfortunately the prime target, GB follows closely behind. We have seen what kind of damage one can do with chemical weapons in Japan when one sect released i believe it was Sarin in the subway.... I hope this doesn't come true or I will have the Feds and DHLS knocking on my door.

Europe is almost completely against the war in Iraq and against the Bushmania. Therefore, terrorist acts in the remaining countries (other than Spain and GB) would only alienate supporters. Hence I would call attacks on France, Germany, the Scandinavian Countries, Austria and Swizerland not likely to happen, Italy will not become a target as the terrorists don't want to piss off all Catholics in the world and start the modern cruisades......

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I rather tend to think it'll be either the US or the UK, the former in an attempt to upset Dubya's bid for the presidency, and the latter possibility as retribution for their ongoing support of the US in Iraq.

I think that terrorism will always be around from now on. It's never going to stop or go away. As time goes on the whole world will eventually become just like Israel, in that regard.

Sad but true.

The next attack is most likely to occur in the so-called New Europe. Italy and Poland are the most probable targets. The attack will be against a popular resort or some other famous tourist destination

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I´d say it would hit too close to home.
Portugal has a very poor security record, poor infrastructures, poorly trained anti-terrorism personel, it has supported Bush in the Iraq war and sent over troops, and has 2 major events comming up this summer:
The Rock in Rio music festival, and the Euro 2004.

Terrorists aren´t dumb. They are not going to try to bomb a place where they know they will have very slim chances of sucess. Portugal provides them with a perfect candidate. And, let´s not forget that the group responsible for the March 11 Madrid bombings, has written a letter of warning to us, promising a big hit like Madrid.
You won´t see me in any stadium this summer, that´s for shure!!

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I think the terrorists are smart enough to realize that an attack before the 2004 election would almost automatically guarantee re-election for Bush because whether his policies help or hurt the so-called war on terrorism, a large percentage of the American citizentry wrongly equate "tough talk" with effectiveness and the majority of the American people may feel more protected by Bush in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.

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Mmm, maybe Startup. Maybe. That does make a certain amount of sense.

On the other hand, another big terrorist attack here in the US might suggest that Bush, for all of his Homeland Security initiatives and spending and foreign wars, has not made us one bit safer here at home in the end.

Support for his handling of Iraq has dropped to new all-time lows lately. He's trying very hard to hang on to the perception that at least he's made us safer from terrorism here at home. If that turned out to be shockingly untrue do you think the borderline supporters would still believe that? I don't. I think it would shake the country to it's foundations all over again, and he'd be blamed by many that now still support him.