This New Terrorist Tactic Has Western Security Forces Completely Unprepared
SputnikNews.com
16.06.2016
Why did the Orlando terror attack catch US security forces by surprise? The crux of the matter is that terrorists have recently changed their tactics.
The Orlando attack has clearly demonstrated that terrorists have recently changed their tactics: instead of using hostages as bargaining chips, today’s radical extremists carry out ‘spectacular attacks’ for their own sake, Amos Harel, one of Israel’s leading media experts on military and defense issues, notes.
“It seems that a new terror pattern has emerged that governments and security forces in targeted countries are only beginning to understand — a movement from terror for bargaining purposes to spectacular attacks almost for their own sake, with an aim to lengthen the drama for as long as possible,” Harel writes in his article for Israel’s daily Haaretz.
The expert draws attention to the fact that in the past kidnapping and hostage-taking had a clear goal: terrorists sought to make a bargain with authorities to free their counterparts or to fulfill other demands.
However, in recent years the situation has changed drastically: “hostages are no longer taken to achieve anything, but just to buy time.”
“Hostage-taking lengthens the terror attack, increases the dramatic atmosphere surrounding it, ensures heavy media coverage and enhances terror’s psychological effect,” Harel explains.
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