Leaders of the al-Qaida and Islamic State terrorist groups have been urging followers in Western nations to carry out attacks with whatever weapon is available -- including a knife, a car or a fist. This month, Mohammed Bouhlel showed how deadly simple attack methods can be. He killed 84 people in the French port city of Nice with a truck. Daniel Benjamin was a counterterrorism official at the U.S. State Department. He is now the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. “It’s a frightening moment,” he said. “How many easy and simple ways can we identify to kill people?” Terrorists have begun using vehicles as weapons for several years. So-called car-ramming assaults by Palestinian militants have killed many people in Israel. Vehicles have also been used in a series of smaller attacks in France, Britain, Canada and the United States. In 2006, Iranian-American Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove his car into a group of students at the University of North Carolina.
Title: Terrorists Using Low-Tech Methods to Attack, Kill
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methods can be.</span> <span data-start-time='24208' data-end-time='30750'>He killed 84 people in the French port city of Nice with a truck.</span> <span data-start-time='30750' data-end-time='36688'>Daniel Benjamin was a counterterrorism official at the U.S. State Department.</span> <span data-start-time='36688' data-end-time='45104'>He is now the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.</span> <span data-start-time='45104' data-end-time='48042'>“It’s a frightening moment,” he said.</span> <span data-start-time='48042' data-end-time='54229'>“How many easy and simple ways can we identify to kill people?”</span> <span data-start-time='54229' data-end-time='60167'>Terrorists have begun using vehicles as weapons for several years.</span> <span data-start-time='60167' data-end-time='67958'>So-called car-ramming assaults by Palestinian militants have killed many people in Israel.</span> <span data-start-time='67958' data-end-time='78688'>Vehicles have also been used in a series of smaller attacks in France, Britain, Canada and the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='78688' data-end-time='91146'>In 2006, Iranian-American Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove his car into a group of students at the University of North Carolina.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1217/low_img.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question 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