The effect of the recent terrorist attacks in France, Lebanon and Egypt is being felt all over the world. On Tuesday night, two Air France flights, one from Los Angeles and the other from Washington D.C., made emergency landings. A phone call warned of bombs on board. One of the planes landed in Salt Lake City; the other in Halifax, Canada. No bombs were found. But the trips to Paris were delayed for many hours.
In Washington, D.C. during Tuesday’s evening rush hour, commuter trains to Virginia were delayed. A suspicious package was found in a train car.
It turned out to be nothing dangerous. Just “your normal every day package” someone planned to mail, said a spokesman for the Virginia Railway Express. But trains were stopped for nearly an hour while the package was examined.
The point of terrorism is to “instill fear,” said Daniel Antonius, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Buffalo. Often after a violent attack, it is difficult for some people to move on with their daily lives, he said.
