Nothing except keeping our guard up as we should be doing anyway and staying away from places where they are likely to occur: places with large numbers of people concentrated in a relatively small location --like concerts and sporting events. But realistically, when they do occur any given one of us will be extremely unlikely to find themselves in the location that is under attack.BCGlocker wrote:What can we do to prepare ourselves for the inevitable attacks?
I'm not going to avoid going somewhere I want to go because of the very remote possibility of an attack. Even if there was one of these attacks every day the chances of any of us finding ourselves in the location under attack would be very very small --and there is no way there will be more than a few such attacks due to the logistics required to carry them out.
In my own case I don't live or work in a large urban area. I also have never liked crowds and actively avoid places where lots of people congregate...because I don't like crowds, not out of fear of being attacked. Any attacks that do occur are likely to occur in crowded venues in large urban areas so I expect to continue to do everything I normally do without ever even being near one.
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Well, according to this, you won't have to be in a crowded venue....they apparently drove all over Paris hitting targets of opportunity. Still, the odds of being at any location under attack are very small:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -ones.html
FIRST TWO ATTACKS: STADE DE FRANCE
- The attacks began at 8.17pm GMT at the Stade de France where the French football team was hosting Germany in an international friendly.
- The game was being watched by 80,000 spectators, among them was President Francois Hollande who had to be evacuated from the stadium.
- The first explosion, a suicide bombing, was at an entrance to the stadium. A guard said an explosives vest was found on one of the attackers as he was frisked trying to enter with a ticket. While trying to back away from security officers the militant detonated his vest. A second terrorist is believed to have blown himself minutes later. One person was killed in the explosions.
THIRD ATTACK: LE PETIT CAMBODGE AND LE CARILLON BAR
- At 8.25pm GMT a separate team of gunmen arrived in a Black Seat and attacked diners at popular Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon bar in the trendy Canal Saint-Martin area of eastern Paris, killing 15.
FOURTH ATTACK: LA CASA NOSTRA PIZZERIA AND LA BELLE EQUIPE BAR
- The same unit then drove about 500 yards to La Casa Nostra pizzeria and opened fire on diners on the terrace of the restaurant, killing at least five people.
- From there, the militants drove around a mile south-east – apparently past the area of the Bataclan concert venue – to launch another attack, this time on La Belle Equipe bar in Rue de Charonne. At least 19 people died after the terrace was sprayed with bullets at 8.38pm GMT. The attackers then drove off.
FIFTH ATTACK: CAFÉ ‘COMPTOIR VOLTAIRE’
- Five minutes later, a separate attacker set off a suicide vest outside the outside cafe 'Comptoir Voltaire' on the Boulevard Voltaire and close to the Bataclan theatre.
SIXTH ATTACK: BATACLAN MUSIC HALL
- At 8.49pm GMT, the third group (believed to be three men and a woman) armed with AK-47s stormed the Bataclan music hall and began shooting members of the crowd. Survivors claim three blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their bomb.
SEVENTH ATTACK: NEAR STADE DE FRANCE
At around 8.50pm GMT a third blast took place near the Stade de France, this time by a McDonald’s restaurant on the fringes of the stadium. The boom caused terror among spectators who had already been attempting to flee the stadium following the first two explosions.