Bloomberg View: Evolving the Terror Fight to Match al-Qaeda
Terrorism is changing. Diplomacy and defense must change, too
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Suicide bombers attack Turkish embassy staff in Somalia. A rocket-propelled grenade slams into the United Arab Emirates’ embassy in Libya. Nine people are killed when three men try to storm an Indian consulate in Afghanistan.
Those recent incidents didn’t make nearly as much news as the preemptive U.S. response to intelligence reports of a planned al-Qaeda attack: a wide-ranging travel warning and the closing of 19 U.S. diplomatic facilities through Aug. 10. Yet they offer a useful lens on the best way to counter a changing terrorist threat.