It’s al-Qaida, Islamic State and any other Islamic organization that flies the pirate jihadi flag, the end game is their shared goal, it matters little which one is carrying it out.
It’s great that the Legacy Media (lame-stream) are finally opening their eyes (somewhat), but Lori Lowenthal Marcus hit this dead on the money over a year and a half ago, May 2013, in relation to the Boston bombings by the Tsarnaev brothers.
Online Jihadi ‘Mein Kampf’ Urging: ‘Attack Sporting Events’
The global jihadi masterminds endorse a new style of operation, particularly for those in the non-Muslim world arena: small cells, few connections, low cost munitions and high density, high profile crowds. “It’s the al Suri Strategy come home to roost.”
Latest update: December 30th, 2013
abu Musab al Suri a/k/a Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, global jihadi strategist, author of the ‘Jihadi Mein Kampf’
We live in a world profoundly confused about how, when and whether to assign blame when terrorists hurt innocent people. More here.
Attacks in West Raise New Fears Over ISIS’ Influence
CAIRO — The British police arrest four men accused of plotting a bombing on the scale of the Mumbai hotel attack six years ago. The Australian authorities arrest a ring of 12 accused of plotting daring murders, including a public beheading.
In Canada, a gunman assaults the Parliament building and kills a soldier guarding a war memorial, and a motorist strikes two soldiers, killing one — in both cases, perpetrators with tenuous links to Islamist extremism.
And in New York City, a man wielding a hatchet attacks four police officers in Queens, slashing one in the head and another in the arm.
The series of episodes over just the last four weeks is raising new fears about the capacity of the extremists who call themselves the Islamic State to catalyze so-called lone-wolf attacks, conceived and carried out by individuals or small groups around the Western world who may have little or no connection to the Islamic State.
There is no evidence that any of the episodes were carried out by any centrally organized terror network. But in each case the violence was plotted or executed by individuals moved by the messages of Islamist extremists, and all took place in the one month since the Islamic State began exhorting Muslims in the West to commit such acts.
“The Al Qaeda ‘fan boys’ never did this, definitely not in so coordinated a fashion in so close a time,” said William McCants, a scholar of Islamist militancy at the Brookings Institution.
