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Originally Posted by Ninjacat
Guys, can't we just agree the terrorists acted like morrons so the CB could look good blowing them up?
Sure, the terrorists need some sort of command structure, but it's a lot more likely to be a basement somewhere or the tent of a friendly tribal leader. The September 11 attack was coordinated from an appartment in Germany. The whole point of being a terrorist is not having a huge infrastructure. And you can be damn sure the leaders won't be anywhere near instalations you can blow up with an air strike without killing lots of civilians.
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well, we don't even know whether those that got blown up at those camps include all the leaders of the entire organization. and we don't know whether they have a huge infrastructure across the entire organization. all we know is that they have some forest camps that can be set up within a couple of days, some random mountain caves stronghold, and some MS. It's not uncommon in previous Gundam shows where MS can be maintained and operated by small civilian groups or even some individuals, and there's absolutely no indication that the MS used by the terrorists in Gundam 00 need any huge infrastructure for maintenance and operation.
There are real world terrorist groups with forest camps and mountain caves strongholds, and US has actually planned to bomb certain suspected terrorist base in West African desert in the past, it's nothing wrong or moronic for some terrorists to set up camps and bases in remote places in forests or deserts. The only thing is that in real world when some people blow up some terrorist HQs, it does not instantly stop the terrorist threat to them, but that's because we don't have anything similar to CB in real world. The fact that when CB destroys several HQs of a terrorist group, it ceases to be any more threat to CB, is because of CB's abnormality. As far as I can see, it's the uniqueness of CB that enable them to defeat the
terrorist threat to them (not neccesarily the entire terrorist organization) so easily and ensure that they won't face any terrorist threat without a centralized system.