On the 16th of January 2006, Channel News Asia reported the above. Honestly, this has gotten me a little worried. After all, it is already almost 6 years after terrorists striked New York city, 3 years after the first Bali bombing, 6 months after the London attacks and 2 months after the second Bali bombing.

6 years after terror struck New York city and we are just working out a united response? 2 bombings just 3 hours away by air and we still do not have a united response plan?

Honestly, how prepared are we and what took us so long?

There was a mock terrorist attack on Serangoon Garden yesterday. Roads were closed from 10am to 12pm to prepare for the attack. The police actually started to cordon off the area from 12am! A stage was erected for VIP to watch the attack occur! Ur, so much for realism, I guess.

Nobody is going to tell you where and when terror will strike. Terrorists will not tell you 10 hours in advance to prepare for them. So is this spectacle really going to prepare us for an incident? I don’t know, but I certainly hope so.