In May 2010, a young man born in Pakistan tried unsuccessfully to blow up a car in Times Square, New York. A couple of Pakistani descent carried out a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015, killing 14 people. It is hard to attribute the new CT threat to a single factor. The institutional acceptance of the new threat has the potential of making the discussion around CT more nuanced, expansive and grounded. The author has worked with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force now known as United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism

Source: The Telegraph May 30, 2020 20:48 UTC