New, Low-tech Terror Tactics Simple and Deadly: For years, al-Qaida and the Islamic State have been urging followers in Western nations to carry out attacks with whatever weapons come to hand, suggesting items as simple as a knife, a car or a fist.
By killing 84 people in the French port city of Nice last Thursday, with a rented truck, Mohammed Bouhlel demonstrated just how lethal that crude technique can be.
“It’s a frightening moment,” said Daniel Benjamin, a former counterterrorism coordinator at the U.S. State Department, now director of the John Sloan Dickey Center at Dartmouth College.“How many easy and simple ways can we identify to kill people?”
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