Leaderless Jihad: The War That No Longer Needs An Army

A term coined in 2003 keeps becoming more of a reality

In 2003, I first coined the phrase “Leaderless Jihad” to describe how highly structured terrorist organizations would give way to loosely aligned groups and individuals motivated by ideology and directed only by the desire to attack any target they could, to create as much death and destruction as possible.

Why are so many violent haters of Western civilization themselves children of wealth and privilege?

The Philadelphia Inquirer published photos of the homes of the two Bucks County, Pennsylvania, ‘men’ charged with throwing homemade bombs at a protest outside of Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, in New York City. To the left is the newspaper’s photo of the Clymer Street home of 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi. It did not take …

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