Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Al-Qaeda pivots to the economy

Oh Allah, I have a really fucked-up, fucking headache
My head hurts like a son of a bitch

From Ace of Spades:
This is what I'd feared for some time now.

...He [Zawahiri] goes on to emphasize the importance of so-called "lone-wolf", or small-scale attacks as part of al-Qaeda's strategy.Such attacks, he argues, will have an economic impact above all."We must bleed America economically by provoking it, so that it continues its massive expenditures on security. America's weak spot is its economy, which began to totter from the drain of its military and security expenditure," he says
We all know how effective the Mohamed/Malvo shooting spree was at inducing regional paralysis, and those turds were amateurs, practically begging to get caught. Had they taken their show on the road, moved around a bit more, stretched the hit interval somewhat, they could still be doing it today.
Small dedicated independent one or two man teams are essentially immune to being compromised from the inside. You're not gonna get an undercover inside their "organization", and you're not going to be able to use all the usual network discovery tricks on them.
OTOH, if they're doing operations that are hardware/gear intensive, then they've got to risk (somewhat) more exposure in their acquisitions since a couple of dozen items can't be parceled out over a number of individuals to make them seem more innocuous.
If one guy walks into Home Depot and checks out with plastic sheeting, some shovels, rope, duct tape, a cordless sawzall, a machete, some bags of lime, and a bunch of hefty bags, it might raise some eyebrows. If those kill kit components are spread out over 6 buyers, no flags would ever be raised.

7 comments:

Christine said...

Yes, this is definitely our biggest threat.

And it could actually be a lot worse on us psychologically than a big, one time attack.

Simply not knowing when the next one will hit, is enough to terrorize.

Anonymous said...

And they didn't attack again because Bush was hammering them for a very long time. Now that this pussy has been your commander in chief, the terrorists feel bolder and hence their "new" (old) plans to attack again.

Nicoenarg

Always On Watch said...

Pasto,
Gotta love that comment you made!

Anonymous said...

LOL Pasto.

If you were facing an intelligent enemy then this war might not even be taking place in the first place?

Don't you think that if they could put 2 and 2 together, they'd realize that f***in their mothers, fathers, and sisters is not just a swell idea when it comes to reproducing (especially f***in their fathers...)?

Secondly, if they could "wonder" about what the best way to inflict damage without getting caught was then they could also "wonder" whether Allah and Mohammed were even worth fighting for.

We have discussed this before. The enemy in this case is barbarian morons who can't think worth a damn.

And that is why they'd be really easy to defeat...only if your leaders had anything resembling balls.

The scenarios you are thinking of where they work in teams and coordinate and sh*t? That sh*t takes brains to work properly. Either you're giving these idiots way too much credit or you're in a joking mood today.

As for Zawahiri the f***tard asking for lone-wolf attacks within the US. Yeah, sometimes even the barbarians aren't willing enough. You had Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt planning to take control of the country for over 80 years and once they had it, they took only a year to screw it all up. Those morons had both time and places to meet up and PLAN.

If they weren't successful with all the time given them, then I think it is even harder for a little muzzie in some-town USA to pull off something that would matter.

Lone-wolf attacks by Muslims have taken place, at random, they just haven't had the effect Zawahiri was dreaming about while getting ass-raped by his new jihadis (and their goats).

Nicoenarg

Pastorius said...

LOL

Right you are, Nico.

Pastorius said...

Our conversation is beginning to remind me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5k6toS7i8

Anonymous said...

LOL that's some funny sh*t.

Nicoenarg