I mean seriously, 99% of what they do is both dumb and useless. Their attacks might be a little scary I'll give you that. But give me 15 men and 10k$ and I'll put the whole France down on its knees. 150 men and 200k$ and it will be the Europe that will cry like a baby.
Uh OK whatever. That sounds like you're quite young or quite naive or both. But either way, you are correct about the dumb and useless part except terrorists don't see it that way at all. It's a cause to them, a crusade.
Not so naïve in my opinion. Our whole economy is based on transport. You wanna hit Europe hard? Take 10 guys with hammers and go hit railroads randomly accross the country. It'll make hundreds of deaths of course, but it will also stop train transport.
You can do the same with trucks. Simply put a 5 meters long thin sharp piece of metal at night when there is no one on the highway. Rise it at day when traffic is dense. Huge crash and highway blocked.
The idea is that our economy depends highly on transports, but that transports axes are weak because far too vast to be protected!
So those organizations exist, and yes governments do take advantage of it but they take advantage of everything. That part shouldn't be surprising. If you want to see some real conspiracy theories, go to septemberclues.org or letsrollforum.org. It's some of the crazies shit you've ever seen.
Well I'm wondering about their lack of efficiency. They don't do even 1% of the damage they could do. It's rather suspicious...