Abstract
IM has specialized in carrying out simultaneous or consecutive attacks where multiple geographically dispersed targets, usually but not always in the same city, are attacked simultaneously or in quickly timed succession. These attacks are often on soft targets like city markets. This chapter examines the conditions under which IM carries out such attacks.
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Subrahmanian, V.S., Mannes, A., Roul, A., Raghavan, R.K. (2013). Simultaneous and Timed Attacks. In: Indian Mujahideen. Terrorism, Security, and Computation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02818-7_6
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