The Internet and Do-It-Yourself Jihadism Much Less Than Meets The Eye?

THE RECENT cases of car bombs in the United Kingdom, two found in London before detonation and a third used to attack Glasgow Airport, appears to have forced security specialists to review the phenomenon of car bombs, itself not uncommon in recent human history. This episode has also given rise to s...

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Main Author: Loo, Bernard Fook Weng
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Commentary
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82530
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40120
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:THE RECENT cases of car bombs in the United Kingdom, two found in London before detonation and a third used to attack Glasgow Airport, appears to have forced security specialists to review the phenomenon of car bombs, itself not uncommon in recent human history. This episode has also given rise to speculations about the emergence of so-called do-it-yourself terrorism, of home-grown and amateur terrorists resorting to technologically simpler methods of conducting attacks.