Da bomb

Today the German bombing plots were making headlines, as you all probably know. 3 Muslim men were planning on bombing Frankfurt International Airport and Ramstein, a U.S. military base. Thankfully authorities were able to arrest them before they could go on with their plans.

News like this really scares me. I've been to London, just a couple of days after the Underground bombings a couple of years ago, which was pretty frightening. Of course chances are very slim of a similiar thing happening so soon afterwards in the same city, but still I have to admit every time I got of the Tube safely, I felt quite relieved.

The eerie thing about terrorist threads, is that it can happen everywhere. It's not like you're living in a warzone where you have to be on your guards every moment of the day, which is why it's so easy not to think about the very real thread there is in our everyday lives. The Netherlands are participating in missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, which means we could be a possible target for evildoers. If it can happen in New York, London, Madrid and almost in Frankfurt, there's no reason to believe something like that could never happen in , say, Amsterdam or Rotterdam. After all, Rotterdam is a major hub in freight traffic, through it's large harbour. A bombing could seriously disrupt Europe's economy.

Of course, this is not something you want to be thinking of every day, cause when you do that, you can't enjoy a normal life. Still, news like today does really start me thinking, and I pray to God this will never happen in the Netherlands.