Posted on 01/08/2011 10:41:44 AM PST by Tom D.
When one considers all of the people and places in the West targeted by transnational jihadists over the past few years, iconic targets such as New Yorks Times Square, the London Metro and the Eiffel Tower come to mind. There are also certain target sets such as airlines and subways that jihadists focus on more than others. Upon careful reflection, however, it is hard to find any target set that has been more of a magnet for transnational jihadist ire over the past year than the small group of cartoonists and newspapers involved in the Mohammed cartoon controversy.
Every year STRATFOR publishes a forecast of the jihadist movement for the coming year. As we were working on that project for this year, we were struck by the number of plots in 2010 that involved the cartoon controversy and by the number of those plots that had transnational dimensions, rather than plots that involved only local grassroots operatives. (The 2011 jihadist forecast will be available to STRATFOR members in the coming weeks.)
The Mohammed Cartoon Dust Has Not Settled is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
Read more: The Mohammed Cartoon Dust Has Not Settled | STRATFOR
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