by Joe Alton, American Thinker:
In the early hours of the New Year, an American-born citizen with a black ISIS flag drove a truck down Bourbon St. in New Orleans, killing fifteen revelers and injuring about three dozen others. His name was Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The New Orleans attack followed hard upon another vehicular incident at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, which led to the deaths of at least five people while injuring 200 more.
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Vehicular terror events are becoming more common throughout the world. In 2021, a driver rammed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people and injuring 48 others. In 2016, a truck driver engineered the killing of 86 people and the wounding of 434 others in Nice, France during a fireworks display. Thirteen died and dozens more were injured at a Berlin Christmas market the same year.
The origin of the vehicular terror strategy is unclear, but some years ago, an English-language ISIS magazine called Rumiyah called for vehicle attacks on the West in an article called “Just Terror Tactics.” Al-Qaeda has made calls for similar attacks, calling trucks “the ultimate mowing machine.”
The article in Rumiyah said: “Though being an essential part of modern life, very few actually comprehend the deadly and destructive capability of the motor vehicle and its capacity of reaping large numbers of casualties if used in a premeditated manner… Vehicles are like knives, as they are extremely easy to acquire…”
Ordinarily, mass casualty terror events are associated with guns — one was used by the driver in the New Orleans attack — but firearms are difficult to come by in most countries. That doesn’t mean shooting incidents are completely unknown outside the U.S. You can own a gun in Germany, but must meet several strict requirements: You must be over 18 years old, have no criminal record, pass psychological and safety exams, have a government-issued license, keep mandatory insurance, store it in a locked container, and more. Let’s just say it’s easier to rent a truck.
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