The new edition of Al Qaeda's online propaganda magazine, known as Inspire, calls on its followers to target trains in the US and Europe, identifying three methods of attack: the train's compartments, derailments or assaults on stations. The Homeland Security intelligence report continues, "The AQAP (Al Qaeda in Yemen) video serves as an important reminder that mass transit, passenger rail, and freight rail operations remain a potential target for terrorist activity. As Thomas Joscelyn at the Long War Journal notes, Al Qaeda has "...intended to wear down the West, in part by driving up the costs of security and waging war. Al Qaeda’s failed attempts to bring down airliners in the years that followed have also driven costs up." While Al Qaeda has not abandoned the large-scale, mass-casualty attack, these have proven harder to execute.

Source: Fox News August 14, 2017 22:41 UTC