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The New Patterns of Terrorism



On 23/005/13, in London, an active military officer was murdered by two suspected terrorists in Woolwich. That incident happened near to the military base which is regarded as the sensitive place and the Prime Minister Cameron, had called for COBRA meeting which deemed to be serious national security problem that needs a serious attention. One of the terrorist had stated that he killed the solider because his own people are been killed by the British army. Further he said this is an eye for an eye act.  Interestingly the both are locals who are radicalized to kill their own people because they feel that the injustice is done by their army on ‘their own people’ in other countries. These are the home grown terrorists who will endanger the national security on the country where they born and raised. This kind of terrorists is very difficult and hard to be contained. Even though one of the terrorist on Mi5 radar of investigation but they concluded that he is not the biggest threat and able to evolve from their monitoring system. This is very much similar to the lax of monitoring prior to the Boston attack.

A few days ago, Moscow was attacked by the terrorist as well. Russia’s security service, the FSB, killed two suspected militants and detained a third in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. The suspected militants were planning a terror attack in central Moscow. They are reported to be Russian citizens, but trained for the operation in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

On 25/05/13, in Dagestan, a terrorist widow who had acted as the suicidal bomber injured two policemen with the blast and a few days earlier, two car bombs in the same region killed four people and injured dozens more. Stimulatingly, the Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had visited this region last year.

On 15/4/2013 there are two bombs exploded during the Boston marathon. The authority said that at least three people are killed including an 8 years old boy and more than 200 people were injured. The investigation had concluded that two ethnic Chechens are implicated to this terror attack.

This terror attack is an astounding attack. The authority had said that there is no imminent threat. It is evidenced that the bombs are detonated by the brothers near to finishing line of marathon. They had chosen strategic places to detonate bombs where the bombs were packed in an unsuspected way and were exploded in between 12 seconds

The suspected terrorist siblings are who come from Dagestan had been living in the United States for more than a decade but had been radicalized and motivated to launch as attacks on American soil thorough the handler ‘Misha’ and various jihadi internet portals. According to the younger brother the involvement of USA on Afghanistan and Iraq further infuriated his elder brother to do such an act. 

The attack is premeditated, well planned and executed. These attacks had evaded without detected by enforcement and intelligence agencies. The pattern of the terrorist attacked in those cities is very similar. The locals especially the young ones who had be radicalized to do a terrorist attack in their own country. This is absolutely intolerable and for whatever reasons the authority cannot allow these people to walk freely. In nutshell, the relevant agencies must be upper hands against these terrorists to stop them from launching any attacks further or otherwise the impact will be so detrimental to the national security as a whole.

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