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Now al-Qaida Wants to Torch Your Car and Snarl Your Commute****
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By Spencer Ackerman****
03.01.13****
11:50 AM****
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/qaida-cars/****
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al-Qaida's new strategy: vehicular vandalism. Photo: FontFont/Flickr****
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Once they turned hijacked airplanes into missiles. Now al-Qaida is
encouraging jihadist wannabes to set your car on fire and blow out your
tires on the highway.****
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That's the advice from the DIY jihad section in the latest issue of
al-Qaida's English-language web magazine, Inspire. The new "Open Source
Jihad" (.pdf) is all about vehicular vandalism.****
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One suggestion, penned by "Ibnul Irhab" in the new issue of Inspire, is to
run up on parked cars with gas cans and a matchstick. "How safe will the
West feel when parking their cars, knowing they're up for a TORCHING,"
Irhab writes. His helpful tips: avoid CCTV cameras; hide the gas in an
apple juice bottle; and, importantly, "don't get petrol on yourself." This
is what Open Source Jihad bills as "America's worst nightmare."****
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Nor is it safe to drive to the store or the office. Inspire encourages the
inspired to smear "lubricative oil" on roadways right before sharp blind
turns to cause a traffic accident. ("Demolition Derby Style," it promises.)
If that doesn't sound terrorist-y enough, another tip is to hammer nails
into a pegboard painted black so oncoming cars blow out their tires.
There's even a chart explaining the physics behind car crashes for
Inspire's slower readers.****
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Once again, Open Source Jihad is lowering its standards. Earlier issues of
Inspire's "Jihad Kitchen" gave Anarchist Cookbook-style tips about cooking
up explosives and instructions on blowing up apartment buildings. Its last
foray into vehicular assaults involved tricking out the grille of an F-150
with knives to create an "ultimate mowing machine." (Even Osama bin Laden
rolled his eyes at that one.) The apparent calculation behind the
half-assed car torchings and unsafe driving conditions is that they need to
lower the barriers to entry for jihad, since pretty much no American
Muslims bother with it.****
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On the other hand, road accidents kill way more Americans than al-Qaida
ever has, so its junior-varsity squad might as well try to take credit for
them.****
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