Her confession offers a glimpse into the wave of suicide attacks by women in the past two years that has alarmed Iraqi and American commanders as insurgents have adjusted tactics to avoid detection.
The threat was credible because of the undeniably unkind conditions, but some of it could also have been gamesmanship — the Netherlands took full advantage of the pauses in play to adjust tactics.
"The terrorists are adjusting their tactics," Mr. Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news briefing this week.
Anannya Bhattacharjee, program officer at the Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, a Unitarian Universalist Foundation in Manhassat, N.Y., said the movement had displayed remarkable creativity in adjusting its tactics.
"With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
Groups like ISIS and al Qaeda remain determined, adjusting their tactics as counterterrorism missions intensify.
Among these groups, the pioneer of this electoral strategy is adjusting its tactics to advance campaign finance reform across the country.
"We police around 3,500 large events every year including on New Year's Eve and we meticulously plan those events … and we look at our tactics and we look around the world and adjust our tactics if need be.
So the party adjusted its tactics.
