Vaporware of Terror
A startup that should have stayed in stealth mode but didn’t. (Amplified their product too early in the cycle, couldn’t deliver.) The age of inept terrorists continues.
Good police work paid off – and treating terrorism as an intense type of criminality is likely the best long term approach. There’s plenty of people thinking about how to fight off these guys. Rule of thumb: Radicals are easy, it’s the non-ideological you have to worry about.
Note: The amping up of successful counterterror op helps drive guerrilla innovation – they learn what doesn’t work and innovate accordingly. So far, these high profile plots (Pacific airline bombers etc) have fit into the ‘inept’ category and innovation generated from not making the same mistakes has been minimal. The rest is a function of luck.
-Shlok
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