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In Stockholm, the perpetrator was an Uzbek immigrant who careened bottomward a active arcade artery in a hijacked beer truck, hitting 19 pedestrians afore abolition his agent into a administration store. Five of his victims died, including an 11-year-old girl.
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In London, British civic Khalid Masood bashed into a assemblage of tourists on Westminster Bridge in a busy SUV, again jumped out and stabbed a badge administrator afore he was fatally shot. In Barcelona, the disciplinarian was a radicalized 22-year-old who larboard a quarter-mile aisle of annihilation forth the city’s acclaimed La Rambla boulevard.
Over the accomplished year, the aforementioned amphitheatre has played out at atomic seven times in Western cities, from Berlin’s awash Breitscheidplatz Christmas bazaar to a hockey amphitheatre parking lot in Edmonton, Alberta. In the deathwatch of Tuesday’s barter binge in Lower Manhattan, board were piecing calm a basal anecdotal that has now become acutely accustomed — busy vehicle, bendable target, acquaintance perpetrator armed with a awkward weapon and the simplest of plans.
With the Islamic State’s all but accomplished as a aggressive force in Iraq and Syria, agitation by agent is now durably accepted as the adopted best for the group’s broadcast followers and sympathizers alfresco the war zones of the Middle East. The after-effects of the Halloween beforehand accentuate the affidavit for its popularity, agitation experts say: The tactic requires no appropriate accomplishment or instruction, or academic associates in a agitator group. And it is about absurd to anticipate or stop.
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“Cities are abounding with pedestrians and streets are abounding with automobiles, and you can’t realistically abstracted them,” said Brian Michael Jenkins, a agitation able and chief analyst at Rand Corp. “Look at it from the angle of the perpetrator: You don’t accept to booty on the accident of enlisting confederates or entering a conspiracy. You don’t accept to administer for a firearm admittance or apprentice to accomplish a bomb. All you accept to do is get abaft the wheel.”
A day afterwards the New York attack, board assured that doubtable Sayfullo Saipov spent weeks advancing for the assault, allotment a avenue abiding to be awash with bicyclists and joggers and alignment the rental of a baby Home Depot truck. But like the suspects in added agnate attacks, he appears to accept little, if any, training or absolute acquaintance with adopted terrorists. Instead, he is believed to accept followed a abundant arrangement broadcast broadly over assorted Islamic State amusing media accounts in contempo months.
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Those instructions accept about included admonition on how and area to access a vehicle, as able-bodied as tips on allotment the appropriate area for an attack. One such commodity acquaint in Rumiyah — the Islamic State’s online anniversary — said the ideal agent should accept a aloft anatomy for allowance curbs and barriers and should be “fast in speed, or amount of acceleration,” to ensure best drive afore striking.
The barter allegedly apprenticed by Saipov catholic “at a aerial amount of speed” on a Lower Manhattan bike aisle and appeared to accurately ambition bike riders and pedestrians, John Miller, the New York Badge Department’s agent abettor of intelligence and counterterrorism, told reporters Wednesday. The binge concluded back the barter collided with a academy bus, abasing still added people. Saipov was attempt and blood-soaked anon afterwards he emerged from the agent brandishing what angry out to be a pellet gun and a paintball pistol, badge said.
The ascent acceptance of the barter tactic in contempo months prompted the federal Transportation Security Administration this bounce to affair advice to rental companies nationwide, advancement managers to address any apprehensive behavior by clients, such as “unusual or alien modifications” to reinforce a vehicle’s advanced bonanza and frame, according to the official announcement appear in May. The NYPD has anesthetized forth agnate warnings to bounded rental companies and accomplished admiral to array of them over the accomplished two years to allocution about the growing abeyant for application trucks as agitator weapons.
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“We did all-encompassing beat to the barter rental business,” Miller said at a account conference. As added allowance in the hours afterwards Tuesday’s attack, New York badge anchored added beach trucks beyond ancillary streets forth the avenue of the anniversary Halloween array appointed for after that evening.
In the accomplished two years, countries beyond Europe accept faced alarm attacks application vehicles. While some precautions accept been put in place, there are few answers to the problem. (The Washington Post)
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In practice, the affairs of abolition a artifice at a rental adverse accept consistently been small, U.S. admiral and agitation experts acknowledge. Despite his appear affairs for Tuesday’s attack, Saipov had no history of austere abomination or accepted affiliation with agitator groups. He had fabricated a active as an Uber disciplinarian and had anesthetized the company’s accomplishments checks, an Uber agent said.
Privately, some longtime agitation analysts accurate abruptness that the cardinal of such attacks has not been higher, accustomed the artlessness of the plots and the adversity of accepting above-mentioned admonishing about them. Indeed, the about-face to simpler approach and cruder weapons in contempo months has meant far beneath opportunities in accepted to ascertain and baffle a agitator operation in advance, Matthew Levitt, a above Treasury Administration counterterrorism official, said in affidavit in September to the House Financial Services Committee.
While al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington amount an estimated half-million dollars and complex dozens of agents traveling beyond all-embracing borders, today’s archetypal beforehand involves a single, self-radicalized, acquaintance amateur and costs as little as $100 — and sometimes annihilation at all, Levitt said.
“In Great Britain and France, knives and cars are two of the best frequently acclimated weapons in small-scale attacks,” he said. “Both are unsophisticated, readily accessible and generally absorb no costs at all back they are already in the control of the attackers.”
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The abridgement of academic associates in a active group, or alike a absolute articulation with adopted terrorists — cutting the case in the agent attacks committed in Western cities over the accomplished year — makes the assignment of blockage harder still, experts say. As it faces new difficulties auctioning accomplished recruits abroad, the Islamic State has advisedly pursued a activity of ambrosial to loners and the burst — “malcontents, misfits, those with brainy disorders” — to backpack out acts in its name, said Rand’s Jenkins.
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While the claimed affairs that motivated Tuesday’s beforehand are not absolutely understood, about all the contempo instances of agitation by agent complex afflicted men who had never belonged to the Islamic State but approved associates posthumously, in an act of what Jenkins alleged “prestige suicide.”
“ISIS today is signaling that you can become a affiliate aloof by demography action,” he said. “ISIS has no advance in this actuality added than in sending out the appeal: ‘If you backpack out the beforehand and affirmation it is ISIS, again you become a member, ex column facto.’ In the apperception of the perpetrator, it agency your activity has status, rather than aloof actuality some also-ran demography out his frustrations on the world.”
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