Posted on 10/07/2016 4:51:59 AM PDT by SJackson
Latest jihadist outreach explains how to pick a blade, what organs to aim for, and advises against 'fully detaching' heads
The same day vice presidential candidates met to clash over who had the best plan to stop terrorism, the Islamic State was telling would-be jihadists that they didn’t need a lot of planning to wage homespun attacks—just a sharp weapon and the most mundane of targets.
The chilling directive was issued in the second edition of ISIS’ new magazine Rumiyah, a monthly publication distributed in several languages on easily accessible sites across the web.
ISIS plainly stated, for starters, that they would eschew the term “lone wolf” to describe terrorists popping up in communities from Minnesota to Belgium. From now on, the magazine said, any attacks in the lands of “disbelievers” conducted with a pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be called “just terror operations.” That’s not “just” as in just a bit of terror, but “justice,” the group explained. They’ll no doubt use their other favored monikers like “lion of the caliphate,” but there’s calculated outreach in the “lone wolf” phrasing shift: ascribing a degree of loftiness and official business to what would otherwise sound like an out-of-control loner.
That was the first propaganda poaching from al-Qaeda, who started calling their lone operators “open-source jihad” a long time ago.
And this past spring, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine dedicated their cover story to assassination how-to. The issue called for a “knife revolution,” modeled after random stabbings of Israelis by Palestinians, to descend upon America, and discussed how to carefully select and stalk assassination targets.
The new ISIS magazine, in a series on terror tactics, explained why jihadists should get over being “squeamish” about the thought of stabbing someone and described how they should pick a quality blade with safety features so that the terrorist doesn’t accidentally slice himself. ISIS explicitly described what organs the attacker should aim for, how hitting a skull risks a broken knife blade and how pausing to “fully detach the head” isn’t advised for the novice beheader.
The suggested targets were especially unnerving: head for random people, ISIS directed, walking on the beach, in a park, coming home from the night shift, leaving a nightclub, enjoying a rippling creek. Forget the large crowds, the terror group said, and hit quiet neighborhoods in multiple-attack sprees with “widely available” knives.
“One need not be a military expert or a martial arts master, or even own a gun or rifle in order to carry out a massacre or to kill and injure several disbelievers and terrorize an entire nation,” the ISIS article said.
It was more a call to spontaneous jihad than a call to use a specific kind of weapon. It was outreach to the unskilled and the unsophisticated to take household items—a baseball bat was recommended to daze victims before stabbing—and commit jihad. It was a message that ISIS, which has already staked out its corners of the dark web, wants its operatives to similarly descend as far under the law enforcement radar as possible.
ISIS understands they don’t necessarily attract the sharpest tacks in the drawer to their team. They would rather have smaller-scale attacks that aren’t easily intercepted in the planning stages no matter how amateur the terrorist—without leaving a trail of gun purchases or other activities to arouse suspicion.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson echoed other national security officials in September when he said “the thing that keeps me up at night” is the jihadist created “at home, in their garage, in their basement, online without us knowing about it” before the eventual attack.
ISIS has heard those fears, and thinks they can build a veritable army of those garage jihadists.
In a listing of attacks over the past month, ISIS’ magazine did not claim New York and New Jersey bomber Ahmad Rahami, who allegedly amassed his bomb parts over eBay in the run-up to the attacks.
The terror group did, though, once again laud—and claim—St. Cloud mall “soldier” Dahir Adan for picking up a knife, heading to the shopping center and stabbing 10 people “in response to the calls” of ISIS.
Counterterrorism interdiction has stopped dozens of plots since 9/11. And the ISIS call for would-be jihadists to wage medieval, simplistic attacks is disconcerting and clear: Spontaneity not only spreads terror to the most unlikely corners of the country, but creates an even bigger nightmare for our efforts to intercept terrorists in the planning stages.
Please. Bring a knife to a gunfight.
A sidearm and pig parts are your best friends, but remember, the federal monster and the Lynchbitch with her selected blackrobed tyrants are on the side of Islam.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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We'll hear that background checks for knife owners would solve this should they taker place here.
But Democrats say that lone wolf attacks are NOT terrorism. Apparently you have to be a licensed member in good faith (paid up on annual dues) of an officially recognized terrorist organization (DAESH or ISIL, not ISIS or ‘Islamic State’).
Can’t Jeh! just vet them and put the dangerous ones on the Watch List?
Huma is destined to be living in the White Mosque.
Concealed carry will stop this crap real fast.
Or leave attacks concentrated in blue cities.
Around here little joey jihadist is likely to get shot for this, and I hope they do. Last night I went for a run and I was carrying both a knife and a gun. Usually I only carry a knife on a run. However, with the clown BS and ISIS calling for random knife attacks I've upped my defensive posture a bit.
The latter.
Sadly, I think you are right. The media is going to destroy Trump, just like they did Cruz and the rest of Hildabitch’s opponents. They even have people on FR that bought into Cruz’s destruction. They are masters at dividing the opposition to the rat party. Who would ever have thought they had the power to put the Islamic vulture in power, but there that psychopathic monster sits.
This kind of war can only be fought with an “army of averages.” We need to use exactly the same tactic only taking advantage of our superior numbers. They slice up a dozen innocents in a shopping mall, we gut 50 of them and throw them in the trash with a can of lard.
Eventually a war of attrition can’t help but favor the combatant with the greatest numbers.
Then we move on to their nests ...
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I’m going to start carrying. Illegal or not. My government has proven that they cannot protect me.
The terrorists have told me they are attacking military families. That is a direct threat.
The only solution is to kill all the moslems.
They have declared war on us. We should finish it in this country by executing or deporting every foreign moslem, bulldozing every mosque or other Islamic terrorist training facility, and inviting any native born moslem to leave the country.
The political system known as islam is opposed to, and 100% incompatible with our Constitution. It needs to be outlawed.
The second step is to nuke mecca and medina and as many of the capitals of the moslem world as it takes to get the mohammedans back into their own countries and living their in abject fear. (And truth be told I am still amazed that this wasn’t done immediately after 9/11)
Any rational person who assumes responsibility for their safety really has to. If you are not familiar with firearms take some courses. Consider competition to become thoroughly familiar. Remember, in a crisis one does not “rise to the occasion” but defaults to training.
I saw an old film THE SAINT VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE. In one scene a man is wiping his bullets with garlic so that if the victim survives they will die of blood poisoning.
For a jihadi, each round rubbed on a piece of bacon should do the trick.
Nonsense. If you are (check two) white, male, Christian, and/or NRA member you ARE a terrorist. Our gummint has said so.
Conceal carry your weapon.
Open carry your bacon!
The responsible thing to do is that, when two elements are together, shoot to kill.
1) Jihadist screaming, in several variations. And,
2) A weapon in hand displayed in a menacing manner.
Though killed or permanently incapacitated, remember that they are not just an individual threat until it is discovered that they had no confederates, nor had planted explosive device(s).
Such villains prefer to prey on the weak, the young and the elderly. So if you are a healthy adult, you are less likely to be the initial target. So your efforts are to defend others.
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