Monday 19 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD,  and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD, in re:  The weekend bomber left bombs in Manhattan with apparently no concern for videocams everywhere.   New Police Commissioner today.   Ahmad Khan Rahami Is Arrested in Manhattan and New Jersey Bombings   He seems to have made some trips to Afghanistan in the past years; seems to be a well-enough planned and poorly-executed plan.  Here in the earliest stage, it looks as though he ;earned from online jihadi site.  This vaguely hearkens back to the early Seventies, when we had the Weather Underground.  Targetting is in line with how jihadis do that. Multiple attacks could have gone off over 24 hours in multiple locations.
Stabbings and slashings: the Minnesota stabber was claimed by Amaq news agency (ISIS).  Young Somali-American acted consistent with what ISIS has called for: pick up a gun, a knife, do whatever you can.  Like German or Normandy attacks – crude ops that require no real planning or sophistication.  In four cases since June (Germany, France, Moscow): IS released vids. Some claim that all this activity is because ISIS is losing territory, but: they’ll continue onward in any case —ISIS claims more martyrdom ops than any other group; and IS external ops have a lowered bar for success, can reach into many different countries.