Planning is easy. Executing is not.
The 21-year-old male was "a completely average young Hungarian" who identified as an Islamist, Janos Hajdu, head of the counterterror police tells news hounds.The man, a university student in Budapest, communicated on websites containing "explicit jihadist propaganda" linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
about how to carry out attacks, says Hajdu.
"He committed to making a pipe-bomb and using it at a mass event, in Budapest or elsewhere in Hungary... in the near future," says Hajdu.
The man had also discussed driving a car into a large group of people, says Hajdu, without elaborating.