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🧠 BLUF
Al-Qaeda (AQ) is exploiting ISIS-branded lone-actor attacks as strategic misdirection—so responders chase noise while AQ teams prep coordinated strikes.
Expect both: headline-grabbing one-offs and low-visibility, team-based pre-attack behaviors in parallel.
Don’t get trapped by attribution tunnel vision: ISIS imagery ≠ ISIS control.
Treat early “small” attacks as Wave One and protect bandwidth for hunting the organized threat.
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📡 CONTEXT
Former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams warns that AQ is funneling operatives through ISIS camps and branding to seed confusion: “Al-Qaeda wants law enforcement focused on lone-wolf ISIS attacks… so we miss al-Qaeda’s coordinated homeland attacks… We’re going to see both—by design—…
