Marching To One
This older NYT article discussing a lone gunman in Amman who opened fire on tourists and killed a British citizen – is littered with great quotes on small scale groups conducting terrorist activity:
“No force on earth could have prevented an attack like this,” said a senior Jordanian security official, who said Mr. Jaoura was surprisingly forthcoming under interrogation. “He was not an Islamist. He was isolated, and he did it on his own.”
Muhammad Abu Rumman, an expert on Islamist movements at the Jordanian daily Al Ghad[-] “There is a huge gap between the government and the people, and the government cannot control this sort of thing anymore.”
There’s no foolproof system to prevent an attack like this,” said Joost Hiltermann, an analyst with the International Crisis Group based in Amman. “That’s why this portends further attacks like it, because you can’t prevent them. The tourists are an easy target and you can have a real effect, so naturally you could expect each attack to get worse.”
-Shlok
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