"Brian Nussbaum, a professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at SUNY Albany, agreed.
"The details of the device used in New York are not yet clear, but the general project of creating an explosive device out of a pressure cooker isn't very complicated,” Nussbaum said. “We've seen such devices used in plots and attacks on the homeland, as well as abroad. In fact, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula included information on how to produce such a device in their English language publication, Inspire Magazine."
"These directions were in the Open Source Jihad section of the magazine, and thus are widely available online," he added."
- Date Published:09/20/2016
- Original Publication:The Journal News