[philh]

> if it didn't it would be for different reasons

Unless you're quite confident that those would be reasons that don't also apply to Beirut - that's exactly what I was getting at.

There is no "the difference". There are differences.

[pmorici]

I am, confident. Beirut is very similar to Paris, or New York in terms if it being a place that has strong international mind share. Bhutan is a place so out of the way that the terrorists wouldn't even know how to get there to attack it. CNN probably doesn't have an office in the country.

It's a difference of notoriety vs. obscurity.