Further investigation needed.
I usually keep half an eye on the news in Northern Ireland...
I'm sitting here, and off the top of my head, I can easily list five or six stories from the past couple of days that are specifically to do with terrorist groups/incidents/the power sharing arrangement. I can't think of any time since the Good Friday Agreement when there's been so much happening. Am I imagining things, or it all getting a bit more tense these days? I often feel we're supposed to believe it's all sorted out and boxed away, as I find myself having to seek out the stories on the local level.
I'm trying not to read too much into the realisation that significantly more of the recent stories have an international flavour to them (eg. Eta member in hiding in NI). After 9/11, when newspapers reported about this 'web' of terrorism - I never could have imagined all these intricate connections between groups with their training exchange programmes and everything - I was astonished. Then felt completely naive for not realising organisation could happen on such a vast scale. It seems rather self-evident now. (Having said that, I'm also a bit cross with myself for falling into that trap of assuming that national groups would be somehow less dangerous than ones with international connections).
Tell me I'm just a paranoid panic-monger, please. I'm starting to get a little bit alarmed. I just feel like people aren't paying attention.
ETA: Yes, the entry looks contradictory. Call me...uncertain.
I'm sitting here, and off the top of my head, I can easily list five or six stories from the past couple of days that are specifically to do with terrorist groups/incidents/the power sharing arrangement. I can't think of any time since the Good Friday Agreement when there's been so much happening. Am I imagining things, or it all getting a bit more tense these days? I often feel we're supposed to believe it's all sorted out and boxed away, as I find myself having to seek out the stories on the local level.
I'm trying not to read too much into the realisation that significantly more of the recent stories have an international flavour to them (eg. Eta member in hiding in NI). After 9/11, when newspapers reported about this 'web' of terrorism - I never could have imagined all these intricate connections between groups with their training exchange programmes and everything - I was astonished. Then felt completely naive for not realising organisation could happen on such a vast scale. It seems rather self-evident now. (Having said that, I'm also a bit cross with myself for falling into that trap of assuming that national groups would be somehow less dangerous than ones with international connections).
Tell me I'm just a paranoid panic-monger, please. I'm starting to get a little bit alarmed. I just feel like people aren't paying attention.
ETA: Yes, the entry looks contradictory. Call me...uncertain.