Snowden and Assange?

Well, I have some sympathy with Hangarshuffles ideas about Davos/WEF.
John
Melbourne
Australia

Bonio...well-known singer of Ireland pop group from Belfast.

Stendec5

The Daleks LIVE...

Indeed they do. Until some weirdo accompanied by a popsie arrives in a blue box, then it's game over.

Seriously, I agree with Lonewolf, that until the assorted terrorist organisations start making an effort to hit the people at the very top, they will not be seen to be a serious threat. So a bus is blown up in Volgograd, but will it really make Putin tremble and rethink? Not likely.

Ram a bus into the front of the Kremlin and then blow it up while Putin is in residence; that might give him a little more to think about.

The psychological effect of the IRA's bombing in Brighton was as effective as the physical damage and the casualties they caused. Let's face it, they came pretty damn close to killing the PM, and that one attack made a much bigger impression on the government than any number of car bombs and gun attacks in Northern Ireland.

I suggest that getting not one, but two, devices into the HQ of UK forces in NI in 1997 was pretty special.

Maybe not as headline grabbing as Brighton but still pretty clever.

Of course, if the terrorists start hitting real targets instead of taking out any number of men/women/children who just happened to be passing by at the time it would concentrate the tiny minds of those in power in no uncertain terms.
For example, you've no idea how easy it would be to take out the oil refineries in my neck of the woods. The "security" is a standing joke. If the rascals got several oil refineries/tank farms in one go the price at the pumps would rocket with the subsequent knock-on effect on inflation and the wider economy rippling through the country like a shock wave.
The ungreat and ungood would sit up and take notice THAT day.

this weeks "Economist" notes that companies who attend three Davos Forums in a row underperform those who don't