THE COMING URBAN TERROR

This is a good treatise on what, in part we may expect to happen in the near future. These kinds of attacks will be coordinated with others carried out by terrorists both domestic and foreign. It is my belief that at some point, major attacks coordinated from abroad will be initiated and joined by sleeper cells and independent terrorists. It will in effect be what is known in chess as a full court press.
The Coming Urban Terror
Systems disruption, networked gangs, and bioweapons
John Robb
Summer 2007
FROM CITY JOURNAL.ORG:
For the first time in history, announced researchers this May, a majority of the world’s population is living in urban environments. Cities—efficient hubs connecting international flows of people, energy, communications, and capital—are thriving in our global economy as never before. However, the same factors that make cities hubs of globalization also make them vulnerable to small-group terror and violence.
Over the last few years, small groups’ ability to conduct terrorism has shown radical improvements in productivity—their capacity to inflict economic, physical, and moral damage. These groups, motivated by everything from gang membership to religious extremism, have taken advantage of easy access to our global superinfrastructure, revenues from growing illicit commercial flows, and ubiquitously available new technologies to cross the threshold necessary to become terrible threats. September 11, 2001, marked their arrival at that threshold.
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