Interesting article

[Rolo]

Reminds me of 3 months after 9/11, I was flying with two of our programmers from the US to Europe, and there were alot of arabic people with the flight... now at first we joked that we better prepare - in a good tone, but the more we talked about it, the more likely it seamed... one of the programmers was getting a bit paranoid, and started to count how many they were and where they went... it seamed like it was a large group of 16 males aged 20-40, and they were not seated close to eachother, so they would go back and forward to talk.
Now the paranoid thoughts started to spread to all three of us, and we were seriously talking about when they would make their move, and what we should do... between the US and Europe there is just water, and with 9/11 still fresh in our minds, then we were sure that they would take over the plane, once we got to the UK, and then crash the plane into London. The monitor in the flight showed our route, and the closer we came to the UK, the more our thoughts started playing with us... and just with 5 mins away from London 6-8 of the arabic guys did another round of going back/forward between their seats - I remember in that moment I was fully convinced that this was it, but something unexpected happen - they just did the same as before - they didn´t turn into terrorists, they just did as they had done many times before. We got off the plane, and have laughed about since, however I´m not sure that my mind won´t play tricks with me in a similar situation.

Sure their actions were odd, however most of the things going on in our heads were made by ourself, inspired by 9/11... that was when I learned that terror is message, which will always be with us, and that Osama had made me loose faith in young arabic males - the ones he needs to recruit... and my thoughts would only make it more easy for Osama, because the young arabic males would feel alienated from me and the rest of us, if we started to listen to all of our thoughts - even when they got paranoid.