Was the Togo terrorist attack a threat to SA's 2010 World Cup?

The UK Daily Mail thinks that the Togo Terrorist Attack was Footballs worst nightmare:

The four weeks in January which were meant to herald an African football carnival have turned instead to carnage.

Security was already a major issue for those travelling to the World Cup, and not only for the players and coaches. Even journalists and TV men heading to cover the competition have been told they will have armed guards and 24-hour security.

Everybody was hoping for an African Festival:

Instead they have an Africa driven by a fear that could even affect the World Cup in South Africa.

Hull Premier League Manager Phill Brown says:

I am appalled, this throws a question mark against next summer's World Cup. You simply cannot put the safety of players, officials and fans at the slightest risk. That is totally unacceptable.

Meanwhile Chief World Cup Organizer Danny Jordaan says that the gun attack will have no impact on the World Cup:

"The world understands that sovereign countries are responsible for their own safety and security and to say what happened in Angola impacts on the World Cup in South Africa is the same as suggesting that when a bomb goes off in Spain, it threatens London's ability to host the next Olympics.

"It is nonsensical for South Africa to be tainted with what happens in Angola, which is not even one of our neighbouring countries."

For every 1 000 crimes reported in South Africa, only 430 criminals are arrested. Of these, only 77 are convicted and barely 8 of these are sentenced to two or more years of imprisonment. [Boycott 2010 World Cup]

So, while South Africa holds the prestigious record of the Gold Medal for Murders, and the Silver Medals for Rapes, at the Crime Olympics; with Angola not even worth a mention; and South Africa's Ministers of Safety and Security either deliberately indifferent to these Crime Olympic realities; or totally and utterly useless and incompetent to provide safety and security for South Africa's own citizens; the very same taxpaying citizens who pay the ANC and Mr. Jordaan salaries; Mr. Jordaan wants the world to believe that these same deliberately indifferent or utterly incompetent Safety and Security personnel, are capable of protecting the Worlds Soccer Stars, from Al Qaeda terrorist acts and gangland crime warriors.

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