“The idea of a suicide attack against a metropolitan area was first coined in 1994, when Algerian GIA allegedly during a hijack tried to command the [airplane] to fly over metropolitan Paris and then crash it on the city itself.”
“The problem of countering the bin Laden organization is that it mutates continuously. It is not only a multinational enterprise with followers with financial infrastructure across the globe, it mutates, continuously shifting in order to insulate the organization from an attempts at removing top leadership.”
