{"id":39880,"date":"2017-08-22T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39880"},"modified":"2017-08-21T21:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:42:50","slug":"an-unwelcome-kind-of-how-to-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/an-unwelcome-kind-of-how-to-article\/","title":{"rendered":"An unwelcome kind of “how to” article"},"content":{"rendered":"

R.G. Edmonson<\/a> on a recent innocuous “how to sabotage a railway” article distributed through Inspire<\/em>, a quite westernized publication for Al Qaeda<\/em> supporters and sympathizers:<\/p>\n

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The Middle East Media Research Institute recently translated a complete how-to guide for making derail devices for use on railroads and transit systems. (via Trains<\/em> magazine)<\/p><\/div>\n

These step-by-step instructions, design guidelines, and templates look like any from a how-to-magazine. Then you realize it’s a how-to derailment instruction guide courtesy of Al Qaeda<\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute, the information came out Aug. 13 and 14 in a recent issue of Inspire<\/em>, Al Qaeda<\/em>‘s glossy magazine. Institute officials say the terrorist magazine urges attacks by \u201clone wolf\u201d operators on rail and mass transit system, and provides detailed instructions for making a concrete device to derail trains.<\/p>\n

According to the institute’s translation, Ibrahim Al-Asiri, the chief bomb-maker for Al Qaeda<\/em> in the Arabian Peninsula, \u201cwe will be focusing on targeting means of transportation \u2026 Jihad groups and organizations may have the ability to target international means of transportation. As for the Lone Mujahid<\/em>, his abilities may be limited to targeting internal means of transportation of a country.<\/p>\n

The translation of Al-Asiri continues, \u201cO Mujahideen<\/em>, it is time that we instill fear and make them impose strict security measures to trains as they did with their Air transportation. Continue to bleed the American economy to more losses, increase the psychological warfare and make it worry, fear and weaken much more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translators say Al-Asiri said that \u201cthe large numbers and numerous types of means of transportation will always set an environment of looming danger everywhere.\u201d The attack will lead to more extensive and costly security measures, and the loss of rolling stock could force some companies into bankruptcy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R.G. Edmonson on a recent innocuous “how to sabotage a railway” article distributed through Inspire, a quite westernized publication for Al Qaeda supporters and sympathizers: These step-by-step instructions, design guidelines, and templates look like any from a how-to-magazine. Then you realize it’s a how-to derailment instruction guide courtesy of Al Qaeda. According to the Washington, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,237],"tags":[387,47,477,257],"class_list":["post-39880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-railways","tag-alqaeda","tag-islam","tag-magazines","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ane","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39882,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880\/revisions\/39882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}