In the last day of class we discussed what we believe the terrorist threat level to be, and a recent suicide attack has made me think more about this. This suicide attack was in Iraq at a restaurant popular among Iraqi police officers. I heard on the radio that for this specific suicide attack at the restaurant a man walked into the restaurant, yelled "God is great" and tried to detonate his vest but it failed. The man was arrested by the police. About thirty minutes later, a different man walks into the same restaurant, yelled the same thing, but this time his vest did not fail. The amazing thing to me is that at least 10 people were killed in the blast (the radio said 15...). I figure that some of those casualties were employees but who in their right mind would stay at that restaurant after someone tried to blow it up? I definitely would not stay there to finish my sandwich, and I would probably not go back to that restaurant again soon. I tried to imagine what the people there were thinking... maybe they believe that there is always a high threat for a suicide attack in their area so they figured they managed to dodge a bullet, or maybe they really don't think that the threat is that great.
To the grader - sorry, this post is half an hour late. Please grade it for the week ending April 20th.
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