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London Attack

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March 24, 2017

What happened in London?

  • Four people including a terrorist, are dead after an atrocity in the heart of London .
  • The attacker drove a car along a pavement on Westminster Bridge, mowing down dozens of pedestrians near the Houses of Parliament.
  • He then left his vehicle wielding a knife and stabbed a Police officer to death before being shot.

Why the lone wolf attack happens?

  • Though terrorist groups have not succeeded in staging a major organised attack on the West since the Brussels attack a year ago, their supporters have staged a steady war of attrition, carried out by knife, vehicle or whatever other means are at hand.
  • These kinds of attackers are sometimes referred to as ‘lone wolves’.
  • Terrorists like the London attacker know that their violence, trivial in the grand scheme of things, will not create a caliphate, or subjugate their enemies.
  • Their political project is to engineer a backlash which breaks up Muslims from the wider community, and thus give their cause the legitimacy and mass base it now does not enjoy.
  • Demonizing the entire Muslim populations, as Europe’s resurgent Right is doing, will gift jihadists something their bombs and knives have failed in winning them. That is the outcome that must be avoided.
  • Intelligence and policing are key weapons to win this long war.

 

Source: The Indian Express

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