Jihadist-inspired local groups or individuals are increasingly challenging traditional security protection against evolving terrorism methods.<br /><br /> In Mumbai, India, on 26th November, 2008, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistani Islamist terrorist group, struck hotels and the main train station. Ten heavily armed men killed 164 people. Security forces took three days to regain control.<br /><br /> In Toulouse and Montauban, France, in March, 2012, three soldiers and then three children and one adult at a Jewish school were murdered by lone gunman Mohammed Merah, a French petty criminal of Algerian descent who said he was inspired by al Qaeda. He was killed by police after a 30-hour siege.<br /><br /> In Nairobi, Kenya, on 21st September, 2013, Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked the Westgate Shopping Mall; six men with automatic weapons and grenades killed 68 people; 200 were wounded. The army took four days to regain control.<br /><br /> Security expert Claude Moniquet looked at similarities between those attackers
