"There have been intelligence inputs about some terrorist activity, and therefore security has been tightened (at airports), " civil aviation spokesperson Moushmi Chakraborty told CNN.
The two macro factors that could derail this scenario are some sort of terrorist event that completely undermines investor confidence across all sectors, or an unexpected downturn in the economy.
Mr. JENKINS: Well, it's interesting that if we look at some of these recent terrorist plots where they have resulted in terrorist violence or where arrests have been made that have prevented acts of terrorism, we find that in many case, local police have as likely a chance of uncovering the events as do national intelligence agencies.
Finally, there is some anxiety that if the terrorist threat absorbs too much of the prime ministerial attention span, the domestic agenda, especially the hard grind of forcing change through the health service and the school system, will be neglected.
There are also bonds that include risk from earthquakes and other potentially catastrophic events (including terrorist attacks, in some instances).
By far the biggest worry is that in the chaos engulfing Syria, some chemical weapons might fall into terrorist hands.
While it is impossible to predict a terrorist attack, taking some precautions and preparing oneself should be a priority for all travelers, says Christopher Falkenberg, a former Secret Service agent who now runs Insite Security, a risk management and security consulting firm that services corporations and high-net worth families.
Last week, in a controversial ruling, Peru's Supreme Court struck down some provisions of Mr Fujimori's anti-terrorist law.
And so it showed that we cannot simply assume that the only cooperation that existed in the world among terrorist groups and their sponsors was on some kind of pure ideological or philosophical lines.
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Among these there are currently some 1, 100 people behind bars in France for terrorist-related activities, according to Alain Bauer, a criminologist.
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Saudi Arabia says that out of perhaps 3, 000 terrorist suspects and sympathisers arrested since 2003, some two-thirds have agreed to re-education programmes.
Some legal scholars have asked for a fuller accounting of what terrorist groups the administration believes can be targeted under the congressional authorization.
Peter Donovan, an oil-options broker at Vantage Trading working on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, said some traders quickly exited positions after the erroneous report of a terrorist attack.
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Syria has for some time blamed much of the violence on foreign-backed "terrorist groups" and UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said last month that Damascus estimated that the number of foreign fighters in the country was into the thousands.
And we must face it with the people of this country, so that we have some shared understanding of the nature of these new, more complex terrorist threats, and a shared commitment to facing up to them: through vigilance, through support for the security authorities, and through an understanding of the difficult decisions that have to be faced by government.
Prosecutors allege that Moussaoui underwent flight training in the United States and weapons training in an al Qaeda camp inside Afghanistan, like some of the 19 known hijackers, and received money from the same terrorist financier in Germany that the hijackers did.
Some wilder-eyed worriers suggest that he should be kept on to prevent terrorist attacks.
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Some of your former classmates are training with Navy SEAL teams that will storm terrorist safe houses in lightning raids.
There has been a gradual easing of some of the security measures applied to airline passengers after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Some privacy groups have quietly been raising concerns that the U.S. reaction to the terrorist attacks may lead to an erosions of civil liberties.
Until now, some EU nations had no legal definition of terrorism, or specific anti-terrorism legislation, meaning terrorist groups could evade controls by moving around the 15-nation bloc which has largely abolished internal border controls.
Some of the blame for the decline in numbers can be attributed to harsh security put in place after the terrorist attacks of 2001.
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