Focus on Islamist terror plots overlooks threat from far right report
Most extensive survey yet of ‘lone actors’ in
Europe warns that rightwing extremists are more
lethal and much harder to detect
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/29/focus-on-islamist-terror-plots-overlooks-threat-from-far-right-report?CMP=fb_gu
Anders Breivik, who carried out the single most
deadly attack analysed by the survey in all 77
people were killed and 242 injured.
Ben Quinn and Shiv Malik Monday 29 February 2016 00.01 GMT
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=172102#172102
The threat from far-right terrorists is being
neglected by governments and law enforcement,
according to the most extensive survey yet of “lone actors” in Europe.
While Islamist plotters are given full attention,
the authors of the 98-page report warn that in
comparison, individuals and small groups of
rightwing extremists in the mould of Norway’s
Anders Breivik are in fact more lethal, almost as
numerous, and much harder to detect by security services.
Britain leads any other European country for the
sheer number of attacks or plots over the past 15
years that have been planned by individuals or
self-starting cells, according to the analysis
conducted jointly by four research institutes.
It also finds that almost half of rightwing
attacks in Britain over recent years were partly
motivated by the murder of Lee Rigby a wave of
violence that ranges from arson attacks through to bombings of Islamic centres.
Analysing 31 European countries, researchers
found there had been 124 individuals involved in
98 attacks or plots over a 15-year period.
After the UK’s 38 planned attacks, France came
second with 11. Germany and Sweden both had five.
The report’s authors concluded that while such
attacks have been rare in Europe 10 countries
had no documented attacks in 15 years there has
been an increase in the frequency of attacks after 2011.
High profile perpetrators in the UK include Lee
Rigby’s killers: Michael Adebolajo and Michael
Adebowale. Others include Pavlo Lapshyn, a white
supremacist terrorist who stabbed a Muslim
grandfather to death and bombed mosques in an effort to trigger a racial war.
Lapshyn’s bombing campaign started after the
murder of Rigby, with his final explosive
detonating weeks later on the day of the
soldier’s funeral although police have said
they do not believe he was motivated by the murder in London.
The joint report by experts from Royal United
Services Institute, Chatham House, the Institute
for Strategic Dialogue and the University of
Leiden in the Netherlands deemed such attacks
“lone” even if they involved up to three people,
as long as the individual or group was acting
without either an order to act from outside or
“direct support in the planning, preparation and execution of the attack”.
Out of the 124 perpetrators in the database, 38%
were religiously inspired and 33% were branded
right-wing extremists. The authors of the report
said they were surprised by the finding, given the focus on Islamic extremism.
“Given the intense public focus on religiously
inspired terrorism, the finding that rightwing
extremists account for a similar proportion of
perpetrators within the database is particularly significant.”
Melanie Smith, one of the co-authors of the
report, said that the researchers were surprised
at the high proportion of far-right, lone-actor
terrorists recorded across Europe. This
perception might also explain the allocation of resources by authorities.
“When we looked into where resources were going,
it became clear that actually the vast majority
were going to looking for religiously inspired
terrorists … which kind of made sense to us
because that’s what we were expecting too, but that’s not the case,” she added.
By European standards, she said the relatively
high number of far-right attacks in the UK could
be due to the ease of collecting data, but also
due to inspiration by some organisations.
Analysts also identified distinctive differences
in the profile of far-right perpetrators and
their religiously motivated counterparts, who include self-styled jihadis.
Rightwing perpetrators those who were motivated
by an “emphasis on immigration policy, a wish to
inspire patriotism and to defend their country
from what they term ‘Islamisation’” tended to
be older: the majority of them were about 40
years old. They were also more likely to be socially isolated.
Plotters and attackers from the
religiously-inspired cohort were far younger
most often less than twenty-five years old as
well as being less socially isolated. They tended
to have the lowest indication of mental health issues.
From the 72 successfully launched attacks within
the database, religiously inspired attacks caused
only 8% of deaths. By contrast, rightwing terror
attacks accounted for fewer executed attacks in
total but just under half of deaths.
“The most frequent targets were civilians, in
particular ethnic and religious minorities,
asylum seekers and immigrants. A large majority
of religious targets were Muslim,” the report found.
The single most deadly attack in the set was
carried out by rightwing anti-Islamist fanatic
Anders Breivik. On 22 July 2011, Breivik
detonated explosive devices targeting government
buildings in Oslo’s city centre, then made his
way to a summer camp on the island of Utøya,
where leftwing youth were having their annual
retreat. Dressed as a policeman, Breivik then set
about gunning down as many teenagers as possible.
In all 77 people were killed and 242 injured.
Yet despite the horror of that day researchers
found that just over three-quarters of attacks
failed to cause any fatalities, and 58% caused no injuries.
“While lone-actor terrorist attacks can be
devastating, a high proportion of plots fail to
materialise in this manner,” the authors said.
The challenge to the security services in Britain
and elsewhere was also underlined by a lack of
discerning or “typical” traits of lone-actor
terrorists, who often evaded the “tripwires” of
intelligence services and police monitoring of
established terror networks. The one outstanding
common feature was that 96% of the perpetrators were male.
The challenges of identifying them were
apparently deepened by the fact that two-thirds
of lone actors had never been active within an
extremist group. At the same time, the
researchers stated that far-right groups such as
Pegida, which has recently launched a British
wing, might provide “moral oxygen” for some violent plotters.
Adding that their research suggested a need for
increased coordination among EU member states, in
particular when it comes to far-right movements
operating across national boundaries, the report
highlighted that no far-right organisations were
currently listed as terror groups.
Information sharing between states must be
improved to avoid the “internationalising” of
certain movements who are able to move from one
state where they are banned to another where they are not.
“A concrete example of existing imbalance is the
group Combat 18 and its associated Blood and
Honour organisation, to which numerous lone
actors across different countries in the dataset
have exhibited a link,” it states, citing a
movement which originated in the UK.
In terms of how plotters were detected, it found
that of the religiously-inspired perpetrators
that exhibited “leakage” of their intentions, 45%
“leaked” to friends or family, in contrast with
only 18% of leakage by rightwing perpetrators.
Rightwing lone-actor terrorists were more likely
to post telling indicators online, where 41% of their leakage occurred.
A key recommendation was aimed at social media
companies such as Facebook and Twitter, who
currently offer users the opportunity to report
content posted by individuals or a page on their site.
Calling for mechanisms to be developed to give
users the option of lodging reports that would
identify potential lone actors, it added: “This
option could perhaps read: ‘[this post] suggests
this person is going to commit a violent attack.’”
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