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After Paris & San Bernardino: Is There Anywhere That Is Safe Anymore?

The news is rolling on with nauseating, disconcerting regularity. Major terrorist attacks have occurred in Ankara, Beirut, and possibly the Russian plane crash in Sinai. But it doesn’t stop there. Paris was hit in a major way for the second time in 2015 - on black Friday night 13 November where 130 were killed. Then on 2 December 2015 San Bernardino, where Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, conducted a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Centre, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event, killing 14 and injuring 21. No longer is terrorism limited to the Middle East and Third World. Instead, it has become a global phenomena, able to strike anywhere, at any time. Even far away Australia is under threat and has colour-coded terrorist levels. This leads to a very pertinent question: Is there anywhere in our world that is safe anymore? In the natural, the answer is ‘No.’ Terrorism is a very portable, often low budget, act of violent p...