Terrorist, Muslim or otherwise is the real show stopper character.
After the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, the FIRST few reports screamed "Islamic Fundamentalist" etc.
The US authorities took some time to get round that idea that 'one of their own', Timothy McVeigh, a white supremacist (who had a grudge against the goverment - see
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mcveigh_secrets.htm) was behind the most heinous act in the US, that was until 911.
Even now, reports like :
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/okc_coverup.htmhttp://www.stopcovertwar.com/McVeigh.htmlquestion if the final report was a whitewash by the government.
To stop a suicidal terrorist, you cannot simply hang pig fat on all your buses or MRT; or call their mothers less than houourable. You got to go to the root causes. See the refugee camps in the west bank etc. people disposessed in their own home and understand the hatred. Joke is that it is the dispossessed who drive the suicide trucks and other tell them its for their owne good.
I am only suprized that it took so long to get where we are, it should have esclated 2-3 generations ago in the 70's with the start of airline high-jackings.
How come we never had any S African suicide bombers, when the fight against Apatheid was hot?
It's to do with cost/benefit. The cost of a sucide bomber and 5-6 tons of exposive fertilizers in a stolen truck, is worth the frount page picture and mention of a unknown organization's graduation to the ranks of the 'big boys'. The beauty of sucide bombers is that they can't complain if what was 'promised' was not what it was cracked up to be!
Its people who wear the mantle of religious leaders with a cause, that take advantage to mislead zealots to commit henious crimes, to make the means justify the ends. Of course, each sect has silghtly different perceptions of what heaven on earth means.
Forget the 78 virgins or Colouring the map world green (deeper shade than WWF green I suspect), what counts is my God (muslim or otherwise) and my manifesto given promenance.
NOW THAT'S HOW THEY THINK, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO STOP THEM?