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As CMStPnP draws a relative crude picture of Germany I thought I should share my view, being born and living in this country for 70 years.  Germany isn't terrorist ridden now and never was. We have had our share of terrorist attacks but much less than many of our European neighbors. The attacks came from the extreme left (RAF, 1968 - 1993), the extreme right (Munich Oktoberfest 1980), Palestinians (Munich, Olympic Games 1972), Islamistic terrorists (Berlin 2016) to name a few. From 1970 to 2016 we had about 170 killed people, with every single one to much. At the same time we had between 17,000 and 3,000 road traffic deaths per year. I never felt unsafe in Germany. But as the RAF had among others the German police and the US-Army as targets, you might have felt differently, but the RAF didn't threaten the "ordinary" people. The Turkish Guest workers have added to the crime stats, but crimes are not terrorism. In the 1980s we had about 10,000 refugees per year with a peak of 440,000 in 1992 after the Eastern Bloc opened its borders. One last remark about Lockerbie. According to the court ruling it was a libyan bomb sent from Malta via Frankfurt to London to go on Pan Am flight 103. I know there are different speculations/conspiracy theories saying it was a Palestinian bomb ordered by the Iran. According to the theories the bomb might have been built in Germany and brought on board in London. But here you have to ask your authorities as they identified the detonator as Libyan. From what I understand living in self contained US Army barracks and/or relying on information in American media seldom leads to a just picture of Germany. I've lived long enough in the USA to know how limited and selected information about European countries can be. Regards, Volker
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