"have ever personally witnessed any terrorist attack first hand"

Omnisciently wrong again.

I was walking back from my house (this was approx 1975) at lunch time to work when a guy ran down the other side of me carrying a rifle. I turned the corner into chaos. As I walked along the pavement, I noticed a young girl I knew who served in the local shop lying on the pavement with her face a funny colour. Someone was kneeling, holding her hand. I saw a policeman and told him I had seen the guy and where he was heading. The next thing, I and another guy (funnily enough a friend!) who had also seen him close up were in the back of a police car racing after him. I see no need to tell any more of the story.

Fie, man fie,
Who's the Fool now?