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November 2016: ISIS recommended rented trucks for jihad attacks; NYC jihadi used Home Depot truck

Oct 31, 2017 6:32 pm By Robert Spencer

“In that article, ISIS encouraged shying away from budget sedans and ‘off-roaders, SUVs, and four-wheel drive vehicles’ that ‘lack the necessary attributes required for causing a blood bath’ as ‘smaller vehicles lack the weight and wheel span required for crushing many victims.’ They recommended trucks with double wheels for ‘giving victims less of a chance to escape being crushed by the vehicle’s tires.’ Long semi trucks were discouraged because of the possibility of jack-knifing.”

With the possible exception of the double wheels, this appears to be exactly the kind of vehicle the New York City truck jihad mass murderer used this afternoon.

“Remedial ISIS Tutorial Steers Jihadists Toward Heavier, Deadlier Truck Attacks,” by Bridget Johnson, PJ Media, May 5, 2017:

The Islamic State just published a remedial step-by-step pictorial for lone jihadists on how to use a heavy vehicle to kill, walking would-be terrorists through how to acquire a vehicle and which targets to strike.

ISIS’ monthly Rumiyah magazine, which publishes online in 10 languages including English, last covered vehicle attacks in their November issue “Just Terror Tactics” segment, using Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, who plowed a cargo truck through a crowd of Bastille Day revelers in Nice, France, last summer, as their key example.

In that article, ISIS encouraged shying away from budget sedans and “off-roaders, SUVs, and four-wheel drive vehicles” that “lack the necessary attributes required for causing a blood bath” as “smaller vehicles lack the weight and wheel span required for crushing many victims.” They recommended trucks with double wheels for “giving victims less of a chance to escape being crushed by the vehicle’s tires.” Long semi trucks were discouraged because of the possibility of jack-knifing.

The terror group encouraged jihadists to find a vehicle with a “metal outer frame which are usually found in older cars, as the stronger outer frame allows for more damage to be caused when the vehicle is slammed into crowds, contrary to newer cars that are usually made of plastics and other weaker materials.” A picture of a U-Haul truck was shown with the caption “an affordable weapon.” A picture of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade was shown with the words “an excellent target.”

Shortly after the article was published, a ram-and-stab attack by Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan on a sidewalk full of students and faculty caused several injuries, but no fatalities. He used a silver sedan in the attack….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), New York City, Vehicular jihad Tagged With: Home Depot, U-Haul


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  1. Bill McKenzie says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    It’s just a matter of time before one of the liberal judges who have allowed Jihadi’s to enter our country have blood on their hands.

    • Mak says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:46 pm

      They already do. This blood. American blood.

    • Charles says

      Nov 3, 2017 at 8:56 pm

      Because this is a war, these dhimmis are War Criminals.

  2. mohamonator says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:54 pm

    I will bet that it comes out that someone at the Home Depot location had misgivings about renting a truck to “that guy” but decided to keep quiet for fear of being labeled “islamophobic”.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 6:58 pm

      I would not be surprised…

  3. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:58 pm

    It’s just a matter of time before leftists will propagate necessity to put restrictions and prohibitions on car rentals quite similar they are so enthusiastic to implement against guns and gun owners (and/or manufacturers). What is the better way for them? Guns kill people! We are against guns! Cars and tracks kill people! We are so noble as to be in avant-garde to forbid them, too! Besides, it will reduce “pollution”…

  4. gravenimage says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 6:59 pm

    November 2016: ISIS recommended rented trucks for jihad attacks; NYC jihadi used Home Depot truck
    …………………………

    Muslims have already done this in Britain, Germany, France, and Isreal–and this will only likely become more common.

  5. Budvarakbar says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 7:10 pm

    Makes it harder to trace to the cell!

  6. Skeptic Sam says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 8:02 pm

    There is the possibility that a jihadi hijack a passenger train then apply full throttle
    and create a lot of death.
    .

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 7:43 am

      There was a Muslim who tried to do just that, in Europe, not so long ago. He was armed, and on the Very Fast Train – the TGV. He murdered a couple of people. I’m pretty sure his ultimate intent may have been to hijack the train and drive it full speed into a crowded station. BUT – there were three American guys on board that train, buddies since boyhood, and one had military training and experience… and, acting together as a team, they **took him down**. They probably averted thousands of deaths.

    • Rickytee says

      Nov 1, 2017 at 9:37 pm

      Ssshhh Sam! Don’t give them any more ideas than they already have!

  7. Debi Brand says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    “… ISIS encouraged shying away from budget sedans and ‘off-roaders, SUVs, and four-wheel drive vehicles’ that ‘lack the necessary attributes required for causing a blood bath’ as ‘smaller vehicles lack the weight and wheel span required for crushing many victims.’ They recommended trucks with double wheels for ‘giving victims less of a chance to escape being crushed by the vehicle’s tires.’ Long semi trucks were discouraged because of the possibility of jack-knifing.”

    Yup. Indeed.

    Moreover, the larger the number of mosque and madrassas, up and operating in our nation, mosque and madrassas wherein the Sunnah of “Allah” and the Sunnah of the alleged messenger of that “Allah” are taught and preached; the greater must be our expectancy to see that way practiced on our streets, in our homes, at our festivals and gathering places.

  8. SK says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 10:51 pm

    “‘Borrowing’”?
    The word they mean is self-evidently “stealing”.

  9. John Forbes says

    Nov 1, 2017 at 5:58 am

    THERE IS STILL DOGGED STUBBORN LEFTISTS WHO REFUSE POINT BLANK TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE & OUR DEMOCRACY ARE BEING ATTACKED!
    EVEN AFTER THE ORLANDO SHOOTINGS WHERE THE FOLLOWERS OF THIS ” TOXIC ” IDEOLOGY PUT IN PRINT THAT THEY HATE US OUR DEMOCRACY , OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE STILL TH LEFT TALKS OR – RADICALIZATION ???
    IT LOOKS LIKE MANY MANY MORE GOOD INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DIE BEFORE ANY STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO CHALLENGE THE TOXIC TEACHINGS GOING ON IN EVERY MOSQUE & MADRASSA ALL UP & ACROSS THE GREAT U.S.A !

    • Debi Brand says

      Nov 2, 2017 at 1:52 am

      “…MANY MANY MORE GOOD INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DIE BEFORE ANY STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO CHALLENGE THE TOXIC TEACHINGS GOING ON IN EVERY MOSQUE & MADRASSA ALL UP & ACROSS THE GREAT U.S.A !”

      Yup.

      Undoubtedly, J.F. Undoubtedly.

      Point on stated: “TEACHINGS GOING ON IN EVERY MOSQUE & MADRASSA ALL UP & ACROSS THE GREAT U.S.A !”

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