Small Attacks

Small Attacks


January 21, 2014 Current al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on last year's 9/11 anniversary explained the new localized strategy of "keeping America in a state of tension and anticipation" through "dispersed strikes here and there," which "can be carried out by one brother, or a small number of brothers." IBD

September 27, 2013 A document found in Somalia after killing Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaeda's former leader in East Africa called for attacking London with "low cost operations" which would "either be many individual random untraceable operations or the group will be trained to cause maximum damage to a single target." Long War Journal

September 13, 2013 jpost Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri calls for terror attacks in US to 'bleed America economically adding he hoped eventually to see a more significant strike, according to the SITE monitoring service....In an audio speech released online a day after the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, Zawahri said attacks "by one brother or a few of the brothers" would weaken the US economy by triggering big spending on security, SITE reported.

"We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its massive expenditure on its security, for the weak point of America is its economy, which has already begun to stagger due to the military and security expenditure ... Keeping America in such a state of tension and anticipation only required a few disparate attacks here and there"... "As we defeated it in the gang warfare in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, so we should follow it with ...war on its own land. These disparate strikes can be done by one brother or a few of the brothers."

At the same time, Muslims should seize any opportunity to land "a large strike" on the United States, even if this took years of patience. [then approved of Boston Marathon bombings]

September 22, 2010 Washington Post Risk of small-scale attacks by al-Qaeda and its allies is rising Al-Qaeda and its allies are likely to attempt small-scale, less sophisticated terrorist attacks in the United States senior Obama administration officials said...

...the risk of a single-target bombing or an attack by a lone gunman has increased..."The spike in homegrown violent extremist activity during the past year is indicative of a common cause that rallies independent extremists to want to attack the homeland," said Leiter... This narrative - a blend of al-Qaeda inspiration, perceived victimization and glorification of past plotting - has become increasingly accessible through the Internet, and English-language Web sites

..."Unlike large-scale, coordinated, catastrophic attacks, executing smaller-scale attacks requires less planning and fewer pre-operational steps," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,


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