ISIS fighters. Yahoo/Reuters
An ISIS supporting message board has been posting instructions for "lone wolf" bombing attacks in the United States. -Yahoo News. Potential targets include Times Square, the Las Vegas Strip and various trains and subways. The forum posted the same instructions that Tsarnaev brothers used to make their "pressure cooker" bombs they used at the Boston Marathon. The instructions are nothing new but the advice on targeting is. New York has upped security in light of these new threats.
My Comment:
It was bound to happen sooner or later. ISIS is of course going to try and retaliate for the airstrikes in Iraq. This kind of forum post will encourage people to try on their own which requires zero effort from ISIS and will have a huge impact on America. When the Tsarnaev brothers went on their bombing and shooting rampage they shut down the whole city. Cops were pointing guns at civilians, running through peoples houses and kept people inside their house. All it would take is for one person on these forums to succeed to do it again. The threat of terrorism is bad of course but the response is just as dangerous.
As for if anyone will pull it off, I think it's possible. These bombs aren't that hard to create, if you have access to fireworks or gunpowder. But I don't think that it's very likely here. America doesn't have a huge Muslim population and most of the ones that are here haven't been radicalized. I think pretty much anywhere in Europe has a better chance of an ISIS terror attack. Of course, like most online forums, it could be that this is just a bunch of wannabes trying to stir up trouble but with no real plans of actually doing anything.
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