<p>Oh boy, this is going to reflect badly. I can see Dick Cheney on TV again.</p>
<p>Edit fail - the attack happened yesterday (Thursday)</p>
<p>How terribly tragic.
In my state, a young man was recently killed by a man who claimed that he did it as a revenge for the US killings in the middle east. The killed just picked a random person to vent his jihadist anger on. Poor kid was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. </p>
<p>Sudden Jihad Syndrome.</p>
<p>They just killed an Iraqi woman.</p>
<p>The fire at the O’Hare airport is also strange - the report I read said it was intentionally set in the basement by a contract employee with self-inflicted wounds. </p>
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<p>I would not recommend that trip without even considering terrorist threats! My husband and daughter took a ferry from Spain to Morocco in June. The ferry was pretty expensive, but they thought it would be cool to say they’d been in Africa. Well, the second they got off the boat, they were deluged with people basically saying, “You are not safe here and you MUST hire me to be your guide!!” It was a mob scene, really scary. They headed back to the dock and took the ferry right back to Spain.</p>
<p>Well I’m rethinking that strategy now. Some guy at work suggested that because he did study abroad in Spain years ago.
Truthfully I was attracted to the one day thing but I don’t have a deep need to go there.</p>
<p>Okay, this is a digression. but did the beheading plot in Australia remind anyone of the US TV show The Following?</p>
<p>The hounding by “guides” at ports of entry has been going on for years in impoverished countries. The tour books all warn about it as a scam or worse. </p>
<p>That’s scary. My kid is traveling soon. </p>
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<p>This event had nothing to do with international terrorism and travel danger from everything I’ve been hearing on local news today. This was someone who obviously had a psychiatric disorder. </p>
<p>@teriwtt has the news identified the man?</p>
<p>They won’t say his name, but they have camera crews at someone’s house in Naperville (a western suburb), claiming it’s the man’s house. They’ve interviewed a few of big neighbors, so obviously they think they know who it is.</p>
<p>I have been to Morocco. There was one really annoying “guide” that pestered us in a small town. Otherwise it was fine!</p>
<p>People getting out of Cancun airport customs get mobbed by timeshare sellers, cabbies, folks peddling tours, etc. I can easily see how someone who have never had experience with this stuff would be completely intimidated! It is probably much, much worse in Morocco. </p>
<p>I don’t remember that at Cancun.</p>
<p>I remember it in Cancun and had been warned about it on the plane going there. Don’t even make eye contact. We went to the Mayan Riviera with a group like Trafalgar. it wasn’t really a tour group but they arranged the travel and shuttles etc. Gave advice on using credit cards, drinking the water and how to avoid scams.</p>
<p>We are going to Italy next summer and using a tour group. I think that is the only way I would travel to anyplace that was even remotely sketchy (not that Italy is. We are going the tour route for other reasons.)</p>
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U ain’t seen nothing yet till u take that 1st step outside the airport in Mumbai…</p>
<p>We’ve had wonderful times in India and Morocco. Yes, people try to sell things. That means they are not trying to steal things.</p>