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(read the book free online<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0get a copy for your Kindle<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0read the Reddit AMA<\/a>)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Al-Qaeda didn’t realize it at the time, but the blueprint for their next campaign of terrorism against America had already been sketched out across the suburban roads and streets of Washington D.C. nearly a decade ago.\u00a0 In the fall of 2002 the DC Sniper terrorized suburban Washington, killing ten people and critically wounding several others.<\/p>\n

It’s taken awhile, but they’ve finally put the pieces together and in the first operational video released since Osama bin Ladin’s death are calling on Muslims in America to carry out the exact same type of attack<\/a>, simple random shootings that don’t require a cell of fellow terrorists or the resources to construct a bomb – just one bullet and one victim at a time.<\/p>\n

These random, utterly unpredictable shootings can be terrifyingly effective. If you weren’t there at the time it’s almost impossible to portray the aura of terror that settled across the beltway duringthe DC sniper’s attacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“As the DC Sniper methodically laid victim after victim against the silent and unflinching pavement, every element of society became clotted with the blood of his victims. The first morning of killings was followed, never more than three days later, by more deaths. Deaths which came at intersections you recognized, at gas stations you’d filled your car up at, in parking lots you’d parked in. There was no telling who would die next \u2013 no segment of society was being spared.\u00a0 And so, inside the first week, the mechanics and behavior of DC-area communities began to change.<\/p>\n

High school football teams went through plays meant for games that had been suspended indefinitely on the lifeless floors and under the sterile lighting of a gym, instead of surrounded by the smells and memories of grass and dirt and grit that high school football is meant to anoint its followers with.\u00a0 For weeks, the paths of children walking to school changed from careless and curious Family Circus-esque meanderings to the tactical and strategic zigzags of hardened soldiers operating in hostile territory.<\/p>\n

Gas stations no longer enticed new customers by offering free carwashes or lower prices but by stringing up giant tarps in front of their pumps to keep you out of sight while you waited for your car to fill, still pacing behind the tarp in an effort to be a harder-to-hit moving-target. Sitting at a dead stop in your car during rush hour wasn’t frustrating, it was out and out terrifying.<\/p>\n

You no longer walked your dog, you ran your dog.<\/p>\n

And, in no discernable pattern and with no unifying link, the bodies continued to fall. After the first day of four shootings, a grandfather was followed by a mother-of-two who was followed three days later by a thirteen-year-old boy followed two days later by Vietnam vet. Then came a bus driver. Victims were shot at bus stops, at gas stations, in front of their schools, in parking lots, and inside a city bus. Schools kept the blinds closed in front of every window that had them and taped colored construction paper meant for art projects in front of the windows that didn’t.<\/p>\n

Every traffic light seemed like the pull of a trigger in a game of automotive Russian roulette. Halloween pumpkins rotted in their patches, remaining unpicked because spending time bending over in an open field to find the perfect canvas for your jack-o-lantern would mean turning a class of 3rd Graders into a gallery of shooting ducks.<\/p>\n

You only felt safe in your own home as long as the window you were standing in front of was shuttered from the evil lurking and killing outside of it. This was terrorism at its awesome finest.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The one man and one boy team accomplished this with the bare minimum of resources, a handful of bullets, one sniper rifle, and a used 1990 Chevy Caprice purchased on the one-year anniversary of 9\/11 as an intentional tribute<\/a> to that day’s attacks.<\/p>\n

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So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that in early June, al-Qaeda’s American-born spokesman “Adam the American” released a video<\/a> in fluent English imploring Muslims living in the United States to “buy guns and start shooting people.”\u00a0 He explains his reasoning further in the video:<\/p>\n

Muslims in the West have to remember that they are perfectly placed to play an important and decisive part in the jihad against the Zionists and Crusaders, and to do major damage to the enemies of Islam waging war on their religion, sacred places, and brethren.\u00a0 This is a golden opportunity…<\/p>\n

“The way to show one’s appreciation and thanks for this blessing, is to rush to discharge one’s duty to his [community] and fight on its behalf with everything at his disposal.\u00a0 And in the West you’ve got a lot at your disposal. Let’s take America as an example, American is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms…<\/p>\n

So what are you waiting for?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s probably not going to be immigrant Muslims who take this message most to heart.<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post reported in a poll in May of 2007<\/a> that African-American Muslims were three-times as likely as immigrant Muslims to have a favorable view of al-Qaeda, and are only about half as likely to dislike the group.\u00a0 On top of that, African-Americans are much more likely to feel like they have nothing to lose, the average black family has eight-cents of wealth for every dollar owned by whites<\/a>, and a black child is nine-times more likely than a white child to have a parent in prison.\u00a0 In many cities the foreclosure rate for black families is three times as high as the white rate, and nationwide unemployment is about twice as high.<\/p>\n

An almost unfathomable number of African-Americans have passed through our penal system, coming out on the other side much more racist and disposed to violence than they were when they went in.<\/p>\n

Although only about 12% of the American population is black, over a third of the two-million Americans locked up in prison are black. And although although only 14% of all illicit drug users are black, blacks make up over half of those in prison for drug offenses. A black man is three-times as likely as a white man to be locked up at some point in his life. At any one time in America, almost a third of black American males in their twenties are under some form of “correctional supervision” \u2013 if not actually incarcerated, then either on probation or on parole, meaning they’ve recently passed through the American penal system.23<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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And when the shootings begin, it won’t take much for the establishment to begin reprisals. The level of trust between the police presence in innercity America and it’s African-American inhabitants typically falls somewhere between laughable and nonexistent.<\/p>\n

Widespread arrests will be made to try and find the terrorists responsible for the violence, and when some of the men \u2013 most of them innocent \u2013 getting arrested resist and the police respond with force, the flames will be stoked further still.\u00a0 Based on past precedent, the police probably won’t be the initial targets – Jewish community centers and American military installations likely will be – but once law enforcement officers begin their investigations and raids, inner-city ire will be shifted against their presence.<\/p>\n

Especially when such incidents are recorded on camera, as Rodney King and others have already demonstrated.<\/p>\n

Rodney King was just one man being smacked around by a few cops, and yet his arrest set inner-city Los Angeles ablaze. Imagine what will happen when dozens of such arrests are recorded and played back not only on the Evening News, but available for free download on YouTube and other internet sites. Another preview of the unrest this will stir was provided when the unarmed Oscar J. Grant III was shot in the back on New Years Day 2009, and the entire incident was recorded on a camera phone and downloaded online.<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to imagine what the response will be when some of them inevitably result in the suspects’ deaths \u2013 an inevitable result when the police fear for their own lives because they think they’re arresting a devious and sinister terrorist who has already tasted blood.<\/p>\n

It won’t take much.\u00a0 In every major modern insurgency, only about 10% of the fighters<\/a> have been hardcore ideologues who believe in whatever cause is being championed, while the other 90% of the fighting is done by locals who are simply protecting their own turf against an invasive outside power.\u00a0 Utilizing martial language like “insurgency” may seem like a bit of a stretch when describing our inner-cities, but it shouldn’t<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The militarized nature of law enforcement in ghetto communities has inspired rap artists and black youth to refer to police presence in black communities as “The Occupation.”\u00a0 In these occupied territories, many black youth automatically “assume the position” when a patrol car pulls up, knowing full well that they will be detained and frisked no matter what.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet when you dig deeper you’ll find that the D.C. Sniper’s blueprint in and of itself wasn’t really novel, as the attacks it was modeled off go back further still – to the first time an imperial Western power attempted what was perceived as colonization of the Middle East…<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0– learn more about Tremble the Devil<\/a> –<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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