Whatever low (and by low, I mean looooow) terrorism risks the DR faces, the areas most likely to be struck could be:
• Punta Cana - B?varo (greatest concentration of Europeans / North Americans at any given time)
• Santo Domingo (the nicer district, because terrorists have a habit of not striking in slums or ghettoes)
• Boca Chica (along the Duarte on most evenings)
• Sos?a (along Pedro Clisante on most evenings)
• Cabarete (during the windsurfing championship or most evenings along the beach)
Since the French seem to be on the radar screen for terrorists, I'll add Las Terrenas too.
That's assuming its one of those Middle Eastern radical muslim lunatics (notice I said radical muslims and not muslims, as in not normal good people muslims) attacks.
The old risk of a violent communist take over is pretty much gone (thanks Balaguer!), so that's one less source of terrorism for people to worry about.
But that may, and this is a big may, be replaced with The Nation of Islam among a small minority of African Americans. They recently held a rally on the mall in Washington DC saying all sorts of nonsense and historically incorrect references, all in the name of uniting the DR to Haiti. They even made a prayer to Boukman (one of the initiator of the Haitian Revolution), presented a so-called Dominican (most Dominicans don't believe he's actually Dominican, considering all the nonsense he said), among other things that are downright insulting to any self-respecting Dominican.
The whole possibility of any terrorism risk from their part is based on:
• They are a rather radical muslim group, mostly full of racial resentments.
• They had a banner on their podium that said 'JUSTICE OR ELSE.' What they meant by 'justice' is the destruction of the DR for the benefit of Haiti. The 'else,' well, whatelse can it mean? They have plenty of lunatics among the ranks for that 'else' to be something serious if they think it would support their ultimate goal which is to coarse Dominicans to renounce our independence and sovereignty.
• Their racial resentments is geared mostly towards whites, so since the DR is home to 99% of the whites that live on the island and is a major playground for a mostly white tourist base with visible concentration of white tourists along several parts of the Dominican coast; it doesn't takes a rocket scientist to figure out what these Nation of Islam lunatics might be willing to do.
• One of their leader (I think its Farrakhan or however his last name is written) visited Haiti first (and is probably the only country of the island he has ever set his foot on). In his 'arrival' speech, which I think took place at the very same airpory in Port-au-Prince, he made it clear that what motivated his visit was a desire to get to know Haiti's voodoo and the underlining anti-white resentments. I personally don't doubt he got together with that segment of the Haitian political class that believes that the entire island belongs to Haiti. This group still exist, albeit they have been out of power for a long time. The fact that they are still active is a source of concern among certain Dominican groups because they could rise to power and that's a problem.
Anyway, this is what the leader of the Nation of Islam of the USA said when he arrived at Port-au-Prince in 2011. After this visit the Nation of Islam developed an 'interest' in Dominican-Haitian affairs and that lead to the 'Justice or ELSE' nonsense they held in Washington DC not too long ago. Dominican intelligence members need to infiltrate that group to figure out what their intentions are, because this could spell trouble for the DR in the not so distant future. Considering their goal is the destruction of the DR, anywhere with significant amount of people could be a target for these lunatics.
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