‘Jihadists’ Consider New Targets For Terror Attacks: U.S. Military Funerals

NY Daily News:

Armchair jihadists have brainstormed another sick way to strike America: bomb the funerals of U.S. service members killed in action.

The recent post on the Ansar al-Mujahedeen web forum cites 2009′s Fort Hood massacre, urging readers to conceal suicide vests under phony military uniforms to get close to funeral VIPs like military brass and state governors.

“There is no doubt that targeting America in these times will have a significant impact in hastening its withdrawal from the countries it occupies, on top of which is Afghanistan,” writes the unnamed author, also expressing hope an attack would compound the global economic crisis.

The ill-informed writer states that security is “almost non-existent” at the funerals, according to a translation by the SITE Institute’s terror monitoring service.

To the contrary, police and volunteers like the Patriot Guard Riders swarm the rites to shield relatives and other mourners from the media and from demonstrators like the protestors from the Westboro Baptist Church.

The church’s members, protected by Constitutional rights the troops died defending, argue U.S. military deaths are God’s punishment for the country’s tolerance of homosexuality.

This week SITE translated a post from another extremist forum calling for the assassination of TV host David Letterman for joking about the death of Pakistani terror boss Ilyas Kashmiri.