Terrorist Training...

[PreachersWife2004]

How much 'training' does it take to be a terrorist? This guy got mad because he couldn't get training...weird.

Feds: Mass. man planned terror attacks on US malls | General News | Comcast.net

 

[keith99]

How much 'training' does it take to be a terrorist? This guy got mad because he couldn't get training...weird.

Feds: Mass. man planned terror attacks on US malls | General News | Comcast.net

It would seem a lot more than he could get. I'm just glad so many would be terrorists are so stupid.

 

[PreachersWife2004]

It would seem a lot more than he could get. I'm just glad so many would be terrorists are so stupid.

Yeah, me too!!

 

[ModCon]

They abandoned the mall attack plans after their weapons contact said he could find only handguns, not automatic weapons, authorities said.

Someone with training wouldn't need fully automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons waste alot of ammo, with little effect.

I am glad he didn't get the training he wanted. Lone activists are the hardest to find. With every person that enters the gang, the chances of being found out, go up drastically.

 

[craigerNY]

lol, a terrorist failure.

 

[DaisyDay]

Someone with training wouldn't need fully automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons waste alot of ammo, with little effect.

A major effect is terror which is, after all, the goal.

 

[ThankGodforGod]

I read a book about a Moroccan who trained at the Kaldon camp in Afghanistan. It very much resembles special forces training but in many cases without proper equipment. The first day they ran for 4 hours barefoot through the snow covered mountains. Most of the reading material they had was American manuals on everything from kidnapping to handling nuclear weapons. They had to learn the backstory of each weapon before they were allowed to even touch it and their AK was their "girlfriend", never leaving their side.

 

[ThankGodforGod]

A major effect is terror which is, after all, the goal.

Killing 50 people has a much bigger long term effect than killing 10 and scaring 40.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Causing terror isn't that hard. Wanna cause terror, just walk into a packed mall's food court while everyone's eating, and set off a vest made of dynamite. The death toll is gonna be possibly in the hundreds.

 

[Douger]

Causing terror isn't that hard. Wanna cause terror, just walk into a packed mall's food court while everyone's eating, and set off a vest made of dynamite. The death toll is gonna be possibly in the hundreds.

I guess most people feel the suicide part would take the "fun" out of fundamentalist.

 

[ACougar]

If these clowns were able to get in touch with terror training camps I can't help but wonder why they haven't already been identified and destroyed.

If they weren't idiots they would have just joined the Army or Marines and recieved thier training that way. I suspect they wanted to belong to the movement that was "defending Islam" more than they wanted to actually commit acts of violence. Like you said violence is easy... ways in which one could kill hundreds doesn't really require a lot of thought.

Causing terror isn't that hard. Wanna cause terror, just walk into a packed mall's food court while everyone's eating, and set off a vest made of dynamite. The death toll is gonna be possibly in the hundreds.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

I suspect they wanted to belong to the movement that was "defending Islam" more than they wanted to actually commit acts of violence.

Sadly, not only do some Muslims ascribe to this idea, but a large number of non-Muslims believe this is true Islam.

 

[ThankGodforGod]

Causing terror isn't that hard. Wanna cause terror, just walk into a packed mall's food court while everyone's eating, and set off a vest made of dynamite. The death toll is gonna be possibly in the hundreds.

I am sure you know more about explosives than I do and I know I personally could build an IED and remote detonator for about $100 that could cause a major amount of terror on the highway.

I think malls, IEDs/VBIED and food/water supplies is where we are most vulnerable.

 

[ACougar]

Sadly, not only do some Muslims ascribe to this idea, but a large number of non-Muslims believe this is true Islam.

Who doesn't want to be the lone hero defending the one true faith against the evil hoards. It's a seductive scenario.

 

[Supreme]

All terrorists are quite stupid, otherwise they wouldn't be terrorists. I mean, only in 2008 in the UK did a would-be terrorist try to blow up a shopping mall but hysterically, only injured himself: 22 May 2008 Exeter bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia