RT Article
T1 How Do Terrorists Choose Their Targets for an Attack? The View from inside an Independent Cell
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 33
IS 7
SP 1363
OP 1377
A1 Torres-Soriano, Manuel Ricardo
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1774531909
AB The present article aims to further our understanding of the process whereby terrorists choose targets for attacks. It offers a case study based on information from a jihadist cell broken up by police in the province of Barcelona, Spain in April 2015 in Operation Caronte. Based on detailed analysis of conversations between cell members, obtained thanks to infiltration by an undercover police officer, it argues that the terrorist brainstorming was informed by four main factors: organizational, contextual, logistical, and geographical. The materialization of the desire to use violence in an attack plan was the dynamic outcome of the way these factors modulated the will of the terrorists.
K1 Organizations
K1 Decision-making
K1 Counter-terrorism
K1 Radicalisation
K1 Spain
DO 10.1080/09546553.2019.1613983