Another Failed al-Qaeda Attack
As a reminder, Deadly Beliefs is based on the fact that al-Qaeda is purposefully failing at attacks on the US. Real life examples are the Detroit underwear bomber, the Times Square bomb in a van and the air freight shipments from Yemen. In my novel I created several other fictitious events. Their purpose was to have American and free-world intelligence agencies take their eyes off of them. Meanwhile they were planning to launch a massive attack on the US and four other non-Muslim countries.
In an example of art imitating life, we have added two more events to their list of failures. Granted the Boston bombers have not been associated with al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization – yet. They definitely represented radical Islam.
Earlier this week on April 22nd the second recent, real-life example of another al-Qaeda failure took place. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two suspects with ties to al-Qaeda in Iran. It was reported by Canadian media that the officials were tipped off by a concerned imam. The two planned to derail a passenger train somewhere between Toronto and New York City. The attack would have obviously caused numerous casualties and transportation disruption.
Is this the work of the same organization that pulled off a nearly-perfect attack on the US in September 2001 or are they attempting to make the CIA, Homeland Security and intelligence agencies around the globe lower their guard?
