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Why when there is a terrorist attack, they always know who did it?

  • 23-03-2016 10:57am
    #1
    regi3457
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭


    Seriously.... everytime there is an attack somewhere the next day they already know who did it. It seems uncanny and even odd to me that ALWAYS they know. Not once do they says: sorry but we just don't know who did it.

    does anybody find that a bit odd?


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  • #2
    Cianmcliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Cianmcliam


    Surely you must have heard the words 'no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack' at least once?

    Anyway, CCTV.


  • #3
    regi3457
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭regi3457


    Cianmcliam wrote: »
    Surely you must have heard the words 'no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack' at least once?

    No I haven't. What terrorist attack are you referring to?


  • #4
    xabi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭xabi


    It's only speculation until someone admits responsibility, it's fairly obvious in most cases anyway.


  • #5
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,346 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    regi3457 wrote: »
    No I haven't. What terrorist attack are you referring to?

    That's a very common statement in news reports about terrorist attacks everywhere from Northern Ireland to Chechnya. However the reason that they generally know so quickly who did it is that someone usually claims responsibility pretty quickly. What's the point in blowing somewhere up to further whatever your ends are and then not tell people it was your organisation that did it?


  • #6
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    regi3457 wrote: »
    Seriously.... everytime there is an attack somewhere the next day they already know who did it. It seems uncanny and even odd to me that ALWAYS they know. Not once do they says: sorry but we just don't know who did it.

    does anybody find that a bit odd?

    Until is/isil/Isis came along the majority of terrorist attacks were confined with national borders or were targeted against specific states for certain reasons ie a bomb in Belfast or London was probably IRA, a bomb in Madrid -ETA, Moscow - Chechen's and so on.

    This made it much easier to say or at least allege who was responsible. Nowadays if there is an incident where Muslim or Arabic looking or sounding individuals are involved most commentators will quickly conclude it was Islamic extremists over the IRA or ETA for example


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  • #7
    regi3457
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭regi3457


    Zaph wrote: »
    That's a very common statement in news reports about terrorist attacks everywhere from Northern Ireland to Chechnya. However the reason that they generally know so quickly who did it is that someone usually claims responsibility pretty quickly. What's the point in blowing somewhere up to further whatever your ends are and then not tell people it was your organisation that did it?

    Telling people it was your organisation does not have to include telling people it was you who commited the crime. I doubt that terrorists are that stupid to give themselves away so easily so it just strikes me as odd that they always know who the actual suspects (not organization) are.


  • #8
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,346 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Are you talking about the authorities knowing which individuals carried out the act, rather than the organisation? If so, apologies, that wasn't clear in your OP. I'd say that the increased number of CCTV cameras everywhere these days makes it easy enough for security forces to spot a perpetrator, once they've been trained to know what they're looking for. And a lot of these guys would be known to authorities already, so putting a name to a face is probably a relatively straightforward affair.


  • #9
    regi3457
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭regi3457


    Zaph wrote: »
    Are you talking about the authorities knowing which individuals carried out the act, rather than the organisation? If so, apologies, that wasn't clear in your OP. I'd say that the increased number of CCTV cameras everywhere these days makes it easy enough for security forces to spot a perpetrator, once they've been trained to know what they're looking for. And a lot of these guys would be known to authorities already, so putting a name to a face is probably a relatively straightforward affair.

    Yes! thank you for considering this. I know the organization would want to be responsible and appear that way to the public but not the actual assassins.

    I also don't believe that these guys are so stupid and that the authorities are so clever and that CCTV can really be the reason. I think it is odd and to me seems like they have to know who did it so they do instead of saying that they do not know sometimes.


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