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TERROR AND REMEMBRANCE
Thursday, June 17, 2004


TERROR AND REMEMBRANCE

Looking at the Google searches that drive traffic to this site I am surprised to see how many people are still googling for information about the Baltic Exchange bombing in London in 1992 by the IRA which I wrote about in detail here. Not only that, the events at Entebbe and the death of Dora Bloch at the hands of Idi Amin’s henchmen also generate a lot of queries and traffic. It is clear that acts of terror, irrespective of the number of deaths and the year in which they took place, linger in our collective minds and various events can trigger a thirst for more information, encourage attempts to re-evaluate what happened and write history, renew the search for the terrorists that got away or just simply to remember the fallen. Blackfive yesterday marked the anniversary of the TWA hijacking in which a one US servicemen was executed and others beaten and tortured. These acts of terror and their innocent victims should never be buried away in files or archives, they should be kept alive and it’s encouraging to see that weblogs increasingly play a very important part in that process. Peaktalk has a pretty good memory and will continue to do that.

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