Showing posts with label Forecasting Terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forecasting Terrorism. Show all posts

Monday, 23 March 2015

Forecasting Boko Haram's Next Cycle of Terror

There is no gainsaying the fact that terrorism is a very complex, constantly evolving phenomenon with varying procedures and targets. It is dangerous to confine the inventiveness of man or of extremists. Terrorism basks on the duality of surprise and near unpredictability. Hindsight tells us that several terrorist incidents could have been pre-empted and frustrated if the security agencies were able to forecast probable scenarios and left no stone unturned in forestalling such.