I've been thinking.....
I don't think the terrorists sit and laugh over added security precautions. I really don't. What happened is their plot, which took at least several months to plan and a lot (alot, for MBC) of financial resources, was stopped. No planes exploded. No death. No carnage. No martyrdom. No success in the eyes of Allah. It was failure. It shows them that well thought out and immensely destructive plots may not be possible anymore.
If there was no financial cost to them, and if these were quick and easy o plan, I might think otherwise. But they are not cheap. They are not quick and easy to plan. They just wasted months and finances for nothing.
They aren't sitting and laughing at added security measures. I don't see this as really damaging to the airline industry - nowhere near so much as if the plot had been successful. So rather than laughing, they are cursing that they failed.
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