One Week, Five Terror Attacks: Beginnings of Another ‘Summer of Terror’? By Patrick Poole
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/04/08/one-week-five-terror-attacks-beginnings-of-another-summer-of-terror/
By the end of July last year, I noted that from the time of the Pulse dance club attack in Orlando that killed 49, Western countries were seeing ISIS-inspired terror attacks at the rate of one every 84 hours.The pace slackened slightly over the next two months, but last summer I termed it the “Summer of Terror”:
And now, just hours before the beginning of the Christian Holy Week and a few days before Jewish Passover, the events of this past week may indicate that we’re seeing the beginnings of yet another “Summer of Terror” comparable to last year’s or perhaps surpassing it.
Just this week we’ve seen terror attacks in:
- St. Petersburg, Russia
- Vaucouleurs, France
- Queanbeyan, Australia
- Ofra, West Bank
- Stockholm, Sweden
St. Petersburg, Russia
On Monday, a nail bomb carried by a suicide bomber ripped through a metro train in St. Petersburg; the attack, at last count, killed 14 people.During the course of the investigation more devices were discovered:The suspected bomber, Akbarzhon Jalilov from Osh, Kyrgyzstan, became radicalized and traveled to Turkey in November 2015, at which point a large gap emerges in his biography.It’s unclear whether Jalilov entered Syria and possibly trained with terrorists. So far, eight others have been arrested in connection with the bombing.
Vaucouleurs, France
Monday night, Sarah Lucy Halimi, a 66-year-old doctor and Orthodox Jew, was stabbed while in her bed and then thrown over her third-floor balcony by a 27-year-old Muslim neighbor while he shouted, “Allah Akhbar”: CONTINUE AT SITE
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