Timecheck : 0350 hrs on 24th Oct 2007.

I have just finished watching a documentary on National Geography about the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre.

One word ; riveting.

It makes me wonder... how secure is our present world, really? How we Singaporeans live our days, in the comfort of our own skin..taking for granted that we're really safe.

Noone in this world can guarantee us proper security,no?

As quoted from one of the verses in the holy Quran, He who kills a man, kills the entire of Mankind..

Terrorism is really a fearful phenomenon. And we can't deny that somehow or rather we are affected by it's plague. But seriously, it isn't anything new. It's been going on since the time of our forefathers and has been a century old tradition in many parts of the world, considered to be the way of life. It's how Palestinian boys become men.

I've seen footages of how Terrorism incurs brutality upon innocent lives. I've seen pictures, widely spread through emails, of a Palestinian boy crying in desperation while holding his bloodied,dying mother in his arms while he spends his last few moments with her. People in that part of the world live like this everyday, not guaranteed whether they'd see the next sunrise.

When a woman is killed, she could've been a mother, or a daughter.. For Heaven's sake, she could've even been a wife..

And what crime could an innocent child possibly commit to be a victim of Terror? So brutally murdered in broad daylight as if he didn't deserve to live?

Noone deserves to die.. Only God has the right to take life away, to pull out the final bit of soul from you..

Seeing how the events of the 1972 Munich Massacre took place, i wonder if what the Palestinians did to the Israeli athletes brought them any pleasure. They (terrorists from the Palestinian guerillas Black September) held 9 athletes hostage, in return demanded the Israeli government to release 243 Palestinian prisoners held captive in several Israeli prisons.

The ordeal took an entire day from dusk till dawn, ended in a fierce exchange of arsenal and bloodbath, killing all 9 Jewish athletes, 5 Palestinian gunmen and 2 of the terrorists.

Did it bring Palestin pride? I doubt so.

But it left about 14 children fatherless, including the then-only-5-week-old baby daughter of Andre Spitzer.

I'm not trying to defame my fellow muslims by regarding the Jews. Yes, those athletes were Jews - the most poignant tale of all was Andre Spitzer's ; Israeli Fencing Coach for the 1972 Olympic games. He was married about a year back to the love of his life and they had just given birth to baby girl 5 weeks back - How even after his death, his wife struggled for 20 years to piece back together the events of that uneventful day. Ankie Spitzer managed to fit the puzzle and finally made herself heard for no woman should ever go though what she did ; losing her husband in such a manner and having to upbring their child ( the only memory left of him ) single-handedly.

My respect to a woman of such strength and determination, driven by love.