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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd now get ready for copy cats
If all this evil filth needed was an 18 wheeler to murder that many people,
it will give others a thought to try it too.
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And now get ready for copy cats (Original Post)
Catherine Vincent
Jul 2016
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A similar attack has happened before - this is not the first time France has seen a truck used as a
MADem
Jul 2016
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This was already a suggested jihadi mass murder method before the Nice massacre
MowCowWhoHow III
Jul 2016
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. A similar attack has happened before - this is not the first time France has seen a truck used as a
weapon. It has happened in Canada and USA, too.
Also, it is well known that 'jihadists' (I hate that word--they're f-ing terrorists) are quite often mentally ill; the recruiting process is designed to appeal to people with mental health issues and problems of perception, to include low self-esteem, paranoia, and persecution complexes.
Anyway, here is a primer on use of trucks by terrorists: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/opinions/truck-attacks-tactic-analysis-bergen/
Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch encouraged its recruits in the West in its 2010 webzine, Inspire, to use trucks as a weapon. An article headlined "The Ultimate Mowing Machine" called for deploying a pickup truck as a "mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah."
In September 2014, an ISIS spokesman similarly encouraged such attacks, saying of ISIS' enemies, "run him over with your car."
A month later, on October 20, 2014 Canadian Martin Rouleau Couture, who had traveled to Turkey in what appears to have been an unsuccessful attempt to join ISIS in neighboring Syria, ran over two soldiers in Quebec, killing one and injuring another.
Also in 2014, there were two such car attacks in France in the cities of Nantes and Dijon, though the motives of the attackers, one of whom shouted "Allah Akbar!" after one of the attacks, are murky. In both cases the assailants had long histories of mental illness, according to the BBC.
The tactic has also been used in the United States. In 2006, Mohammed Taheri-azar, an American-Iranian, drove an SUV into an area crowded with students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later said that that the United States government had been "killing his people across the sea" and he was taking revenge and he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah." Luckily the attack killed no one but it did injure nine.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)2. This was already a suggested jihadi mass murder method before the Nice massacre
Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)3. How sad. Is that real?