bullshit of the week: terrorist expert on the news

I caught the news just now, because it unfortunately sandwiched between the Goblet of Fire, which I was watching, which shows how far down the domestication ladder I have fallen. Harry Potter has always been a nosebleed/vomit blood experience for me: so we have the good guys who are bound by their intangible rules which the bad guys capitalize upon to spawn 7 sequels; and in the end the bad guys come undone because of more tangible rules. Rather bullshitty, but not as bullshitty as the news of course. Incidentally, I felt the only bit that wasn't bullshit was the segment when they showed these bulls being massaged so that they can produce better milk for cheese.

There was a mayor on the news, and a minister, but I think today I wanna single out this ang moh terrorist expert who was giving her 2 cents worth on the Jarkarta bombing.

Her first point was that the bombers this time round must be the same as the previous time because they were using the same type of bomb. I'm reminded of the time a whole chunk of my classmates were hauled up for plagiarism because everyone googled and lifted the information from the first link.

Next, our expert mentioned that this attack must have taken alot of planning and coordination because of the target [JW Marriot]. I'm no terrorist expert, but occasionally I like to dabble in terrorist mind games. Let's see. There's no point bombing a rural area because noone will probably know a bomb went off, so that leaves the cities, of which Indonesia doesn't have very much of, narrowing the possible area by I don't know 80%? Generally it also makes so sense to bomb the locals, because Asian governments generally treat the people who voted them in as fodder, so that rules out places where there's low ang moh to local ratios, which rules out yet another 15%. Hotels are a logical choice, and based on the previous point, ruling out hotels like Best Budget Hotel Jarkarta, what do we get? JW Marriot.

And seriously honestly, I don't see how much planning and coordination is required to drag a suitcase into the hotel restaurant for breakfast.

In addition, to support the 'alot of time and planning' point, our expert also pointed out that JW Marriot is not cheap and our terrorists should have had to spend abit of time raising the funds to stay there. I agree with her totally. I'm a PMET and I totally have difficulty affording a room at a hotel like JW Marriot, except of course unless I don't plan to check out, because I don't know? Hotels like only charge you after you check out?