Comment: Lahore Proves Sport Is A Soft Target And Ripe For Terror

Beijing Olympic Games

From Times Online:

The wonder of it is that it has taken so long. Sport has for decades been the ideal target for terrorism, both in terms of its accessibility and in the trenchant messages such action would have for the world. But until today, sport has, with one great exception, been granted a strange immunity.

With the attack on the bus ferrying the Sri Lankan cricketers to a Test match, it is as if the terrorist forces of the world have suddenly become aware of what was under their noses all along. Sport is a soft target. And you could hardly find anything on earth with such a high profile, already surrounded by media and watched by millions.

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My Comment: The security for Vancouver's Olympic Winter Games (next year) will cost about $1 billion dollars. Security agencies are fully aware that sports is a magnet for most terror groups .... if that was not the case, the $1 billion dollars for the Olympic Games will be spent elsewhere.

Lets face it .... we have been lucky. But luck always runs out.