Friday, September 13, 2013

Al-Qaeda pivots to the economy: This is what I'd feared for some time now.

Via The Feral Irishman

Still of Ayman al-Zawahiri from video obtained in July 2011
...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.

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