Red Team Intelligence: Lone Wolf - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Red Team Intelligence Project: Outline Part 1
Topic (DTO/FTO/Lone Wolf)
Lone Wolf - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Background Summary
1 Explain the recruiting steps used by this organization or how this individual was radicalized. Include the role of social media, extremist literature, recruiters/enabler(s), or other means to recruit and radicalize the organization's members and the individual.
1 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a master of stealth. He used a variety of strategies, including preaching fraudulent doctrines to his followers. He used technology to communicate with and command his followers (Hamoudi, 2018). He encouraged them to launch lone-wolf strikes against Western countries. He had handlers who pushed his message and maintained constant communication routes with his juniors when he was in hiding.
2 Identify and explain the “triggering” event(s) which propelled this organization—or Lone Wolf—to carry out a terrorist attack. Explain the “why” for the attack.
2 The jihadist world was turned upside down by the birth of the Islamic State (Lakomy, 2021). Following its capture of large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014, the Islamic State lured tens of thousands of people eager to construct a new Islamic civilization in a modern caliphate.
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3 What was the target or potential target(s) (i.e., location, people, places, or things)?
3 ISIS' primary targets were the United States and European countries, owing to their anti-terrorist policies (Ilardi, 2021). Non-Muslims were primarily targeted, particularly those who gathered in large groups in markets, airports, and malls.
4 Explain the ideological significance of the target or potential target selections. How does the selection of this target tie into their ideological beliefs? What were they trying to achieve?
4 ISIS' main targets were non-Muslims and any other person who disagreed with their ideology (Ilardi, 2021). As a result, they were met with reprisal in Syria and Iraq, and they fought a war against their own people in the places they called home (Ilardi, 2021). They also created profiles for their potential targets based on skin color and ethnicity.
5 Explain the intended impact of the attack or potential attack in terms of the delibera...