Watching YouTube won’t produce a skilled terrorist NOTE: incomplete post from 2017–08–15. ISIS collapsed faster than my interest in finishing this post. ISIS’ capability as a transnational terrorist organisation continues to collapse. They are unable to bring recruits to controlled territory for training, but rather have to rely entirely on remotely managed raw amateurs who are […]
Terrorists talking points
Terrorists know the value of sensational media coverage of every lame attack. That is why they encourage lame attacks, which is all they can really achieve these days. If there was responsible coverage of attacks, would terrorist organisations have to invest more into trying to pull off “spectaculars”? I suspect they would. And trying to […]
Laurel & Jihadi
How to turn a civilian into a killer -> magic talismans The “remote control” terrorist operations orchestrated by ISIS continue in Europe. Effective counterterrorism and police work, plus the loss of border access to Turkey, has pretty much shut off the terrorist group’s ability to infiltrate trained operatives into Europe. They’ve resorted to a purely […]