Fears over security were heightened after some news media reported that terrorist groups might target South African installations during the World Cup.

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President Karzai said to create the right environment for reconciliation, the United Nations should remove some Afghans named on its terrorist blacklist.

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"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

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"There have been intelligence inputs about some terrorist activity, and therefore security has been tightened (at airports), " civil aviation spokesperson Moushmi Chakraborty told CNN.

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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.

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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.

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