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A "soft target" is a person, thing, or location that is easily accessible to the general public and relatively unprotected, making it vulnerable to military strikes, terrorism, car bombs, or crimes such as vehicle-ramming attacks or mass shootings. [1]
The attacker was convicted of murder and the judge deemed the attack terrorism. [11] 2021 Yangon military vehicle attack, Yangon, Myanmar [12] 2022 Beersheba attack (ramming and stabbing) November 2022 Ariel attack; 2023 Ramot Junction attack in Jerusalem; 2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming; July 2023 Tel Aviv attack
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 ...
According to Clint Watts, of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he is a senior fellow and expert on terrorism, the older model where members of groups like al-Qaeda would "plan and train together before going to carry out an attack, became defunct around 2005", due to increased surveillance by Western security agencies. [17]
This increase reflects the numerous indiscriminate attacks during 2003 on “soft targets,” such as places of worship, hotels, and commercial districts, intended to produce mass casualties. 2002: International terrorists conducted 199 attacks in 2002, a significant drop (44%) from the 355 attacks recorded during 2001.
A Pentagon-funded study relied on old data to conclude extremism isn’t a major problem in the U.S. military, according to a new analysis.Meanwhile, incoming President Trump reportedly plans to ...
In his 2017 book, Words Are Weapons: Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, wrote that "the French government strenuously denied that (this and the 2014 Nantes attack) were terrorist attacks, but terrorist experts dissented, referring to them as examples of a 'low intensity permanent warfare.'" [12] Citing this 2014 Dijon ...
The new weapons are Russia's response to setbacks in Ukraine—and a potentially troubling sign of things to come.