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MikeCapone on Nov 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized

The timeframe probably makes the psychological impact different (over 40 years vs. in one day), though.

dfghjkhgbfd on Nov 25, 2010 [–]

Yes two generations of train stations closed because of bomb scares, of weekly news reports of a new bomb blast.

MikeCapone on Nov 25, 2010 | [–]

"Different" means exactly that. I'm not downplaying it, just saying that it's not as easy to compare as saying that the number of deaths is similar.

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