Tractor-Trailer Barrelled: Truck Attack and World Today

tractor-trailer barrelled: The so-called Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a tractor-trailer barrelled into the well-known market by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, toppling a Christmas tree, tables and booths and mowing down tourists and Berliners alike, according to The Waterloo Record. The tragedy was frighteningly similar to the July 14 terrorist truck attack, also linked to IS, that killed nearly 90 people and injured hundreds more at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France. However, that is the state of the world today, as was made clear by the truck attack last week in Berlin that killed 12 people and injured dozens more at a Christmas market. The attacks underscore the terrorists' interest in soft targets lightly secured or difficult-to-secure venues that attract throngs of people and present maximum opportunity for casualties. Some Germans fear the attack was perpetrated by an asylum-seeker, as were a handful of smaller-scale incidents of violence in Germany over the summer, not all of them linked to terrorism. The Berlin incident described as the first mass-casualty attack by Islamist extremists in Germany also represents an unsettling expansion of the IS footprint. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.