Why Car Bombs?
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Why Car Bombs?
The recent car bomb incidents in the UK (6-29-07 in London, and 6-30, in Glasgow, Scotland, both using “primitive gas and petrol devices”) mirror the challenges that US forces face every day in Baghdad for a reason.
Before I get to that reason, please note what we’re not seeing much of in the US, nor in London, Glasgow, Paris or Madrid:
- Planted high explosive charges in urban areas;
- Biological weapons;
- Plastic explosives like the fabled C4;
- Large tuck bombs filled with tons of homemade fertilizer-based explosives;
- Hijacked airplanes;
- Rampant automatic weapons fire in crowds;
- Complex coordinated attacks involving more than a handful of players;
- Individual, explosive strapped suicidal human bombers.
The Reason?
Anti-terrorist measures in the US and Euprope, a result of vigilance, surveillance, chemical detection technologies, and hardened targets, have raised the bar on these and other formerly common terrorist methods.
We potential terror victims haven’t been exactly idle since 9-11-01.
In addition to hardening our commercial airplanes as takeover targets, we have developed new technologies to detect and interdict explosives. In addition to the bio-technologies like the noses of our canine friends, our new technologies are very good at detecting plastic explosives, like the Group A explosives (e.g. TNT, TNB, etc.), Group B explosives (e.g. Semtex H, RDX, C4, etc.) and compounds containing inorganic nitrates that are used in improvised explosives (e.g. ANFO).
Our high tech surveillance methods are also very adept at catching the larger and more complex terrorist undertakings like the coordinated 9-11 airline takeovers.
As a result, our enemies have been forced to use less effective (though more common) means for terror, like deploying gasoline, propane and other generally available volatiles in ordinary automobiles.
Truck bombs get special attention because TRUCKS get special attention near potential targets.
So why car bombs?
By now, it should be obvious. So far, we in the “liberal” West have been very effective in raising the bar on all the other the terrorist alternatives.
I believe the US, in particular, has been successful in making progress in suppressing the Islamist terror infrastructures Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the West, in general, has been very successful in breaking the “success momentum” of Islamist terror efforts on our own respective territories.
The latest three recent events in the UK are evidence of increasing Islamist desperation. This is hardly a time for gloating, but neither is it a time for despair.
It bears repeating:
All of the terror attacks on us have a common design. Their goal is to promote the triumph of Western isolationism, so that the Islamist extremists will have an unfettered hand in the Middle East where they intend to destabilize and overtake all the local regimes that support Western interests, and replace them with fascistic, theocratic regimes inimical to liberal Western democracy.
We are actually winning, in some cases, in spite of ourselves. Can we still snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Of course we can.
Will we?
The jury is out. Watch the US presidential election closely…
JBG.
