The latest issue of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's English-language Inspire magazine names Amtrak's D.C. to Boston Acela Express and several other passenger rail lines in the United States as prime targets for their new focus on train derailment operations that the group says has been more than a year in the planning stages.
Inspire, which contains vivid picture instructions on how to build devices used for jihad, has served as an instructional guide for American jihadists who don't necessarily claim allegiance to al-Qaeda, including Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The article focuses on metro trains operating within cities, regional routes serving population-dense corridors, and long-distance trains with remote tracks that are impossible to fully police. Trains can be attacked by targeting the cars, the stations or the tracks; the article focuses on the last, stressing that the method makes suicide operations unnecessary and the same person can return to strike more lines if not captured.
"America's railroads are estimated to be a 1/3 of the world's railway. So how can they protect 240,000 km of railroad ... it is practically impossible. The same goes to Britain, with 18,500 km and France, with 29,473 km. It is a daunting and almost impossible task to protect the long railroad length, and yet one of the easiest to target. That may result to great damage and destruction on different levels," al-Qaeda's "Lone Jihad Guidance Team" wrote, adding that "it is time that we instill fear and make them impose strict security measures to trains as they did with their Air transportation."
"We have to expose more of their vulnerabilities in their security. And when they spend millions of dollars to tackle a vulnerability we should be ready to open a new [front]... we expect that there will be no effective solution to the security gaps that may be caused by these types of operations that target the train system."
The magazine includes 17 pages of step-by-step, pictorial instructions to make a "derailment tool" of rebar, reinforced concrete, rubber and sheet metal to clamp onto a track a suggested 10 minutes before a train is scheduled to pass.
The Acela is singled out as a high-speed route that the terror group anticipates would see higher casualties and damage from the use of the derailment tool.
"This is the most suited condition for a successful train derail operation. When a train reaches high speed then it has to be reduced to around 100 km/h. This is because a train at a very high speed is hard to control or manage using brakes. For example America's high-speed train 'Acela' requires a whole mile so that it can come to a halt, this is because of the train's very high speed. Another reason is that the train losses weight and stability when it is at high speeds," the article states. "Therefore a Mujahid must be aware of areas where the train increases its speed and places where the train moves at a high speed."
The Inspire issue details, in photos, the specific types of derailments that jihadists can aim for, including a train coming off the tracks and striking a mountain to "attain the desired result," striking man-made structures including buildings and bridges, and falling from elevated tracks.
"Dual operations" are also emphasized, in which a train carrying hazardous materials can derail in a populated area -- "an issue that makes the different security agencies sleepless."
Specific U.S. passenger lines discussed in addition to the Acela Express are the Amtrak Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, the Cardinal from New York to Chicago, the Carolinian from Charlotte to New York City, the City of New Orleans from Louisiana to Chicago, the Coast Starlight from Seattle to Los Angeles, the Crescent from New York City to New Orleans, the Empire Builder from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Surfliner from San Diego to San Luis Obispo, Calif., the Palmetto from New York City to Savannah, Ga., the Silver Meteor and Silver Star from New York City to Miami, the Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles, the Sunset Limited from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and the Texas Eagle running from Chicago to San Antonio to L.A.
As Sweden is being overrun with the followers of Muhammad under the guise that they are peaceful migrants, they are threatening to deport an Iranian Christian woman.
Not only is the threat of deportation real for Aideen Strandsson, but that deportation would certainly result in her imprisonment, possible rape and torture and death.
An Iranian actress, who moved to Sweden after her conversion from Islam to Christianity following a vision of Jesus in her dream, is now facing deportation and has been told by Swedish authorities “it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian” even if the refusal of asylum results in rape, torture or death.
“They said to me it’s your personal life and it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian, and it’s your problem,” Christian Broadcasting Network quoted Aideen Strandsson as saying.
Strandsson traveled to Sweden in 2014 on a work visa, and has twice been denied asylum in that country. “It is really dangerous for me and I don’t know why immigration doesn’t believe that,” she said. “I’m really in danger.”
However, Swedish authorities do not seem to care. “Her case has been appealed and processed by the Migration Agency and thereafter by the Swedish courts, which have also decided that she cannot be granted asylum,” Swedish migration board official Ulrika Langels told CBN.
Swedish attorney Gabriel Donner pointed out, “The (Swedish) migration board information regarding Iranian prisons tell us that torture and rape is common and it is a breach of international law to subject any person to such treatment. Some of them are killed straight off, some of them succeed in going into hiding, some of them escape to another place, but you are putting them at risk.
"Some of them are killed straight off, some of them succeed in going into hiding, some of them escape to another place, but you are putting them at risk," said Donner.
Migration Board head Mikael Ribbenvik could order her case re-opened.
However, Aideen is trusting in Jesus Christ, not the Swedish government.
"I think about that dream I had in Iran, about Jesus and I still think He is watching me” Aideen said. “He will help me.”
In the past few years, Sweden has been committing suicide by bringing in more and more Islamists in their land.
According to a leaked police report, there are 23 Muslim-controlled "No Go Zones" in Sweden that are plagued with violence, sexual assaults, and gun crimes.
One of Sweden's own supposed "Islamophobia" experts pulled his masked off in June and joined with the Islamic State, calling for Islamic jihad attacks in Sweden.
Sadly, Sweden has not learned their lesson.
Even their journalists are like American journalists in covering for the religion of pieces.
Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators and anti-Trump counter-protesters converged at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle on Sunday, resulting in several arrests and the confiscation of weapons.
The rally, organized by the conservative group Patriot Prayer, came one day after violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left three people dead and dozens injured.
Counter-protesters -- including antifa, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Veterans for Peace, Indivisible Seattle, Black Lives Matter, and the Freedom Socialist Party -- marched "in solidarity against hate," specifically against what they called “the bigotry, racism and violence" of the "far-right" organizers. Solidarity Against Hate counter-protesters waved communist flags, yelled "f*ck America," squirted police with silly-string, and burned the American flag.
Seattle police used pepper spray and "blast balls" to keep the two groups away from each other, The Seattle Times reported.
Joey Gibson, one of the organizers of the Patriot Prayer group, posted a video on Facebook asking participants in the Sunday rally to avoid clashing with counter-protesters.
In his Facebook video, Gibson said “a lot of people are going to be frustrated” by his request that they do not fight with the counter-protesters.“We’re not going up to Seattle to battle,” Gibson said. “It’s not a battle royale. We’re not up there to have street fights … It doesn’t look good.”
The anti-hate counter protesters did come to do battle.
At Westlake Park, antifa shouted down the pro-Trump speakers. According to The Seattle Times, "more than once someone from the crowd has jumped onto the stage to grab the microphone away."
"I stand with anyone of any color, of any ideology, of any lifestyle, who agrees that America is the greatest country in this world," said one speaker at the pro-Trump rally.
Historian Arnold Toynbee once famously said that “civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Using this as a springboard, commentator Mark Steyn shows in a new video how Western Europe is already in the death throes of “demographic suicide” because couples are no longer having enough children. He then shows how a thriving Muslim population in Western Europe is well on its way to filling all the empty space.
Steyn explained how given the divergent birth rate between Muslims and post-Christian secularists, it will take only two generations for the current Muslim population (sitting at about 10-percent) to have as many grandchildren as post-Christian secularists (who currently make up the other 90 percent). This is due, he said, to Muslims having on average 3.5 children per couple compared to post-Christian secularists who have only 1.3 children per couple.
“People think this is a slow process…It happens very fast. The catching up is well under way,” he said.
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