/r/terrorism
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Assessing the State of Terrorism Studies
13:03 UTC
Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Cargo Ships - How hard for terrorists?
Dark question.... Ideally would like to hear from people with actual expertise or work experience in shipping ports and cargo ships.
AND JUST TO BE CLEAR I know this was NOT a terrorist act and don't want to spread any silly conspiracy theories. Just wondering if it shines a brighter spotlight on our very vulnerable infrastructure.
How hard would it be for a few bad guys to sneak into the control room of a cargo ship and take things over? Even if you've got little tugboats or pilot boats alongside, I imagine once you get a cargo ship running, it'd be pretty hard to stop. Forget about planes crashing into a building; now you're crashing the equivalent of a horizontal skyscraper into a bridge or other infrastructure.
How robust are the security measures at a shipping port? Do all employees have to get screened at the entrance gate? Seems like it would be a lot easier to get weapons etc past the gate, compared to an airport. Especially where the business of a port is essentially to move around thousands of huge containers in which all sorts of dangerous stuff can be hidden. I'm sure there are some basic measures, but as this tragic event has demonstrated, are they anywhere even close to being sufficient?
It also seems that it would be nearly impossible to harden any bridge against any such possible attack, at least in any economically feasible way. I live in San Francisco. AFAIK Golden Gate, Oakland Bay Bridge, Richmond, Dumbarton don't have any visible control towers. Does Port Authority somehow maintain overwatch to even know if a ship is on a collision course, much less have the mechanism to enact protective measures like stopping traffic?
03:23 UTC
Extremism AmA
02:43 UTC
TERROR DRONES! or how drones will be used for terrorism purposes
No, don't try it at home. I'm asking you to make predictions about what could be, not to make it real.
Also, how could drone-enabled terrorist attacks be countered?
01:22 UTC
The ninth defendant in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus in the Basmanny Court of Moscow. This is 23-year-old Nazrimad Lutfulloi. He was involved in a terrorist financing scheme.
14:25 UTC
Clarke Q&A
08:05 UTC
What is the point of Muslim terrorist groups?
Obviously I understand the point of terrorism is to inflict the most amount of harm to innocent people but why do Muslim terrorists do this when they’ll just get caught and die? Those 4 guys that shot up that mall in Russia got tortured and they will be tortured in jail for the rest of their lives. What is the motive here? Do they just hate more liberalized societies so much that they want to kill random people?
05:55 UTC
is it essential to go into Rafah?
is it essential to go into Rafah to obliterate Hamas as thoroughly as possible?
16:16 UTC
The Terrorism and Extremist Organizations Iceberg (Layer 1)
06:10 UTC
Moscow Terrorist Attack Today
23:23 UTC