Dakar rally cancelled

[Sir_Crashalot]

The Lisbon Dakar rally for 2008 has been cancelled

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22502229/

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[ozzy72]

You can't really blame them, the Dakar is dangerous enough without added homicidal maniacs...

[The Ruptured Duck]

i suppose the regs don't allow anti-terrorist weapons...yet.  how would terrorists attack the rally?  its so spread out.

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[Craig.]

they'd probably use it as a testing ground for future anti tank mines or whatever they are called these days.

[Sir_Crashalot]

Attacking the rally would be very easy to do. First of all because they are so spread out it's very hard to keep security tight. Picking out a single truck, car or motorcycle would be piece of cake. Second of all, they camp at night. Shooting one rocket inside the camp from a distance would be very distructive.

Now I can understand that the organisation cancelled the rally. I just think they did it at the wrong moment. Like Jan de Rooy (Dutch truck contestant) said tonight; I wouldn't have mind if they stopped the rally at the Mauratanian border. At least we wouldn't have prepared for nothing and we would have had a few days of rallying.

Rumours are that this will be the last Dakar for a very long time......

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