OPINION (Daily Star) – Three hundred and fifty-nine people were killed in the devastating Easter weekend blasts, and more than 500 were injured. UK cops have already revealed they are monitoring churches and “specific communities” across the country – but the US may be at greater risk. David Otto, counter-terrorism and organized crime expert at Global Risk International, has warned of copycat attacks in the wake of the slaughter. He told Daily Star Online: “Any Daesh or al-Qaeda sleeper cell in the US will see this as a
tactic worth copying but the conditions in the US and other Western states are different from that of Sri-Lanka, with a long history of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist activities. Mr. Otto added: “Terrorist groups have a tendency to copy each other, especially when a particular attack has the desired impact in global coverage. “The nature of the coordinated hard and soft attack and the multi-national death toll may just be the signal needed for other jihadist groups and sleeper cells to strike the enemy from wherever they are.” READ MORE
