Al Qaeda has drawn a bullseye on a new American target: Subway trains
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Source: Washington Times
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Friday, August 11, 2017
Al Qaeda is about to take on a new target Americas trains in an upcoming edition of its terror magazine, Inspire.
Issue No. 17 is headlined, "Train Derail Operations," and will spell out ways to create rail disasters in a transportation system that lacks the stiff security procedures of airline travel. ... Its competing Sunni extremists group, the Islamic State, for more than a year has advocated using vehicles to mow down innocents. Its murderous followers have weaponized vehicles in Nice, Berlin and London, creating hundred of deaths and injuries.
Adding trains to the terrorists priority list would put at risk virtually every mode of transportation and placed added pressure on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) put out a report on Friday saying al Qaeda has teased the Inspire articles with a trailer appearing on Telegram app channels operated by its fans. ... The trailer highlights that derailments are simple to design using easily available materials, that such a planned attack can be hard to detect, and that the outcome can substantially damage a countrys transportation sector and the Western economy in general, MEMRI said.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/11/al-qaeda-targets-us-trains/
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I know; I know: the Washington Times. Look: they have the story. So did the NY Post, but it gave credit to the WT as the source.
We can do what we always do: wait three days for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, HuffPost, or some other news aggregator, not news source, to rewrite the original story and slap its own name on it, failing to give credit to the original author. Then we can pretend it's LBN. Or you can read it now.
My policy is to go to the original source. That is why I'm going to the WT. They're the source.
Rowan Scarborough is a journalist. Journalists are workers. Rowan Scarborough did the work. Respect workers. Give them credit for their work.
My issue of "Inspire" hasn't shown up yet, so I can't use them as the source.
Is the story accurate or not? That's what you should worry about. If you don't click on any ads, all you're doing by going to the WT's website is running up their bill.
Meanwhile, I'm just about to leave work. I'll be taking the Red Line to Fort Totten. Then I'll head out to Hillandale on the Metrobus K9. I'll take a K9 back to Fort Totten. From there I'll take a Red Line, Green Line, or Yellow Line train to Gallery Place or thereabouts, and a Yellow Line train to Braddock Road.
I expect I'll get home as I always do, along with a few ten thousand of my closest friends.
And that Mallard Fillmore: he's such a laugh riot!
ETA, 10:45 p.m.- I took a K6 back to Fort Totten. I missed one by 90 seconds, which caused by schedule to slip by 50 minutes.
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