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Liverpool terror attack
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manclad
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11th hour of theFor it to happen at 11am on rememberence Sunday seems a bit too coincidental, but time will tell
11th day of the
11th month.
lancs blue
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If it was, it was a very small one that I doubt would have injured anyone except the occupants or someone stood close to the taxi.Looking at the proximity of the other cars and the damage (or lack of) to them, I doubt it was a bomb.
Man_City_Loyal
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3 been arrested
Bluemoon dan
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For it to happen at 11am on rememberence Sunday seems a bit too coincidental, but time will tell
Seems a very strange place to target though if it was anything like that (although the fact that counter-terrorism police are involved would suggest it was), but of all the places, why the car park of a women's hospital in Liverpool? Surely they'd do it close to one of the hundreds of services at cenotaphs anywhere up and down the country?
Well I'm calling bollocks. Think about what you have just typed.3 been arrested
3 people arrested
In Merseyside
By Merseyside dibble.
Nah, I can only think that the Manchester Anti Terrorist cops decided something had to be done and nipped over the border.
Alan Harper's Tash
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3 students from west London?Well I'm calling bollocks. Think about what you have just typed.
3 people arrested
In Merseyside
By Merseyside dibble.
Nah, I can only think that the Manchester Anti Terrorist cops decided something had to be done and nipped over the border.
Chelsea fans.
discopop
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You just know the suspects will have been on a watch list.
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Summerbuzz
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No reason it couldn't have gone off by accident.Seems a very strange place to target though if it was anything like that (although the fact that counter-terrorism police are involved would suggest it was), but of all the places, why the car park of a women's hospital in Liverpool? Surely they'd do it close to one of the hundreds of services at cenotaphs anywhere up and down the country?
Otherwise, it's just modern terrorism.
Once upon a time, terrorists went for the biggest targets, high ranking individuals, armed installations. But there's a lot of wierd ideas out there, some reckon the newer tactics are to unsettle and confuse people, baffle them, hurt their expectations of safety. Create murders and that are different to what's happened before, because people won't know how to react to them. So instead of yet another bomb, we've seem them using knives in graphic attacks. Instead of footage of a building with it's windows blown out, you get pictures of a crazed individual holding a bloody knife looking right at the camera, and the knowledge of what some of us saw on ISIS videos happened here on a random street.
So here it could be they were going for the opposite sort of target. Instead of politicians or soldiers, or some city workers and commuters, they go for women and the unwell... and NHS workers. How do you process that? It's designed to cause people to talk about it, it gets shared more. It's designed to outrage - NHS workers as a whole are a celebrated group. And if the weak, unwell, and females are targetted, who isn't somewhat outraged by the 'cowardice' of that attack? That leaves a bit of a pit of fear and a fresh disgust and hatred in our mouths. And that's the idea of modern terrorism. Maximum upset, maximum confusion. Maximum debate and hatred.
Moreover, it being a woman's hospital will trigger angry debate between people about women's rights and society... also Islam and religion. The political issues around women's bodies - abortion, contraception, pornography / censorship, women's rights in Islamic states, FGM. We've seen some women protest that they feel they are less safe than in recent decades. There's also a debate about them having spaces of their own for their own issues, and who should have access to it. All of that now becomes part of the discussion about this event, or part of the atmosphere surrounding it.
What I'd say goes back to Lee Rigsby. The ideology of terrorism is now that their best, most effective method of attack and undermining our society, is to ruin any idea we have in our heads of us being relatively safe in our streets, in our society. They know if they can do that, we'll end up running around in circles, inevitably throwing around more hate and fear and over-reactions, rather than progressing in an atmosphere of peace and safety, trusting each other and leaving things to the existing justice systems and so on, as we have done for decades, centuries...