More terror threats

I’m a few weeks late with this, but I’ve been thinking about the nine year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Almost a decade has passed and I still can’t watch those images of the burning Twin Towers without gasping in complete shock. It both fascinates and sickens me. At the time I remember thinking I was watching part of a film. I was 14 and had never seen anything like it in my life. But the horror of that day was just a pre-cursor of what was and still is to come in our society.

The news today of a foiled terror plot on London and other cities makes my blood boil. I’m not even going to try and go into all the Al-Qaeda stuff, because I don’t and never will understand. Why human beings desire to kill other human beings. Why some are so intent on mass devastation to the world that they sacrifice their own lives in the process. How they possess such an intense hatred for innocent people who live their lives differently to how they do.

“America will never ever forget the events of 9/11.  We will always be bruised.” someone I met in the USA told me in 2005. And though they have moved on, cliché as it may sound, I could definitely sense the devastation at Ground Zero when I went there.

If the latest foiled terror plot is true, and not just a media exaggeration, then thank God for the people working to eradicate these plots to destroy humanity.

It’s a complete pain in the arse not being able to take bottles of water on the plane when going abroad. It’s a ball ache having to put your Chanel makeup in a Sainsbury’s sandwich bag at the airport. It’s also really annoying being frisked to death and having a good pair of tweezers taken off you before boarding the plane.

But I would rather every single one of these pedantic procedures a hundred times over, than risk being blown up halfway over the Atlantic by a delusional extremist believing they are doing the right thing.

It makes me sick to think there are people like this walking next to us in the street or sat on the same bus. 7/7 was a revelation. This time the killers were born and bred Brits. And their plots will continue to be foiled but they will do it again. It is just a case of when.