Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[Stan]

This is a report done by the NYPD in 2007 that seems to cover the Boston Marathon killers quite nicely.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/nyp...megrown-threat

I heard about yesterday on the radio and read it last night. It is extremely good. To do the report no justice it says these guys go through four stages, pre-radicaliztion, self-identification, indoctrination and jihadiztion. Those four stages also involve some generally common patterns, like getting thrown out or leaving a mosque. From the little I know of older brother, things seem to fit.

Carl,
We were taught there are three stages:

The weakened stage
The preparation stage
The violent stage

On the other hand, earlier last month we had Topless Jihad

... Lesson being that the selection of a target and a date can easily be over-analyzed and assigned significance that it doesn't actually have.

Good that ! A wise old NCO in the early 70s told me strange people can't keep schedules