Sorry my bike got a flat and...

[Terrance]

my girlfriend wouldn't let me go and I stopped to have slice of pizza
and i ran into mary...mary...oh mary...and I know it's after six now but
here's your paper. And, um, let's see, um that's this week and last week
and the week before, that's three weeks Mister and I need the money
cause mary...oh mary.....



How is the world to cope with these multiplying dangers? The first grim
truth to
accept is that the war on terrorism did not begin with last year's
felling of New
York's twin towers, and is not going to end in Bali. Two years before
the twin
towers, al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people in and around America's
embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania. Despite being pushed out of Afghanistan, it has
since killed a
busload of German tourists at a synagogue in Tunisia, tried to blow up
an airliner
over the Atlantic, come close to sinking a French (“Christian”, said its
communiqué)
oil tanker and claimed credit for a miscellany of multiple murders in
numerous
countries. No government seems to know or will say for certain whether
Mr bin
Laden himself is alive or dead, or whether the Bali massacre was mounted
by
al-Qaeda itself or by some local cell inspired by or affiliated to it.
Either way, the
bleak message is that his war will continue, unrestrained by any
apparent moral
scruple. Young westerners having fun in a tolerant Muslim country? A
perfect
target. Bleaker still, given what is known about al-Qaeda's efforts to
obtain chemical
and biological weapons, and to fabricate a “dirty bomb”, the world must
brace for
the possibility of a future blow being more destructive still. And this
is just as      likely to fall on Chicago, Manchester or Marseilles as
on a remote island in Asia.


http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1398712