When they killed Osama, they captured a lot of intelligence data. That data
included some other ideas on how to attack
America and other enemies of Al
Quada. Here are some of those ideas.
Forest Fires:
By starting a forest fire, a terrorist can cause a nation to spend lots of
money trying to get it under control. In addition, if that fire reaches a
population center it causes not just physical damage, but economic damage as
well. This economic damage comes from businesses being forced to close, homes
needing to be rebuilt, and hundreds of tons of plant life that may need to be
replanted to prevent other disasters like mud slides. Basically, we are being
hit in our wallets and anyone dying is a bonus to these terrorist groups.
Hacking: This tactic has the benefit of gathering money for
the organization. By hacking into an account of an individual or business they
can take their money or take proprietary knowledge and sell that information to
gain revenue for future operations. In addition, they can give information to
America's competitors just to harm businesses in
the
U.S.
which also can decrease economic opportunity.
Hijacking: We all know about the pirates who kidnap people
and take ships off of
Somalia's
cost line. But did you know that this is also a source of revenue for
terrorists. By getting ransoms for peoples safe return a terrorist’s
organization gets more money. Also, some of those vessels may not get returned
and could be potentially turned into sea born bombs. One of Al Quada's ideas
was to take over an oil tanker and ram it laden with explosives into
New York harbor to cause
massive loss of life and cost us millions in clean up and damages.
Indoctrination: Groups like Hezbollah have been taking young
Spanish teens to
Iran
for indoctrination into the most radical and violent forms of Islam. Then they
send them to
Mexico
to sneak over the boarder and even sneak operatives from various allied terror
groups into the country. They are already finding terrorist propaganda and
materials on the
U.S.
and Mexican boarder.
Maintaining the "us versus them": To recruit new
members, leaders sympathetic to the jihadist cause stoke the fires of hatred. It
is always us versus them with these people, and they want to keep it that way.
Anything that goes wrong, they blame
America, Jews or another target of
opportunity no matter how far away or unrelated a person/group is to the event.
Rising anger turns to violence and that can be used by terrorists.
Conclusion: These are just some of the new methods terror
groups like Al Quada are using at the moment. All I can say is be careful and
stay safe.
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