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...SHIFTING TO "SOFT" TARGETS...
...that figures into their calculations are chances of success." So the terrorists are taking aim at accessible places --dance halls and hotels, shopping malls and tourist sites, the nightclub in Bali and the French tanker off Yemen--that are not and can never be very well protected. When the soft targets are linked to tourism in countries that count on it, the secondary economic impact can be almost worse...
...downside for the terrorists is that these soft assaults tally fewer casualties per incident, and they suggest that al-Qaeda can't mount big hits anymore. Yet the cumulative impact of the string of smaller strikes from Bali to Mombasa can be just as telling, making it appear that terrorists can hit anyone anywhere and the threat to the U.S. and its friends is global. Some experts worry too that the current taste for soft targets might be intended to divert attention while al-Qaeda prepares a spectacular attack...
According to Goldstein, Chinese leaders cannot afford to be soft on Taiwan, “particularly if you’re a new successor who is somewhat young,” a reference to Hu Jintao, the new head of the Communist Party...
...Harvard power play to start the third period, Ruddock inadvertently directed a soft puck, cleared softly on net, behind herself. The game would have been tied had she not dived back...