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The terms "soft target" and "hard target" are flexible in nature and the distinction between the two is not always clear. [2] However, typical "soft targets" are civilian sites where unarmed people congregate in large numbers; examples include national monuments, hospitals, schools, sporting arenas, hotels, cultural centers, movie theaters, cafés and restaurants, places of worship, nightclubs ...
Recent mass shootings in the U.S. have occurred in so-called "soft targets," public spaces with little security in place to stop an active shooter. Tung Yin, professor of law at Lewis and Clark ...
The authors define a "soft target" as "an espionage term used for any country, institution or group of people very easy to penetrate and manipulate for subversive purposes" [1] and argue that the Canadian Sikh community was a soft target of a covert operation by the Indian government during the 1980s.
"Though the 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade event will provide a broad set of potential soft targets for an attack, congested areas where the largest amount of people gather – particularly ...
The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried aboard airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada, disguised as soft drinks. [1] The plot was discovered by British Metropolitan Police during an extensive surveillance operation. As a result of the plot ...
The 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade may be an attractive target for both foreign and domestic terroristic violence, according to a joint threat assessment obtained by ABC News. Among the most ...
Thus, while coercion is an element in all terrorism, coercion is the paramount objective of suicide terrorism. [ 2 ] The number of attacks using suicide tactics has grown from an average of fewer than five per year during the 1980s to 180 per year between 2000 and 2005, [ 3 ] and from 81 suicide attacks in 2001 to 460 in 2005. [ 4 ]
The New York City landmark bomb plot was a plan to follow up the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was designed to inflict mass casualties on American soil by attacking well-known landmark targets throughout New York City, United States. If the attack had been successful, thousands likely would have died.