Internal communications from ISIS, which were intercepted by private intelligence firm BLACKOPS Cyber (BOC), have revealed plans for a new series of lone wolf terrorist attacks across Europe.
The internal notice directs Islamic terrorists on the creation of poisons, which it advises them to use on food products in stores. The attack notice was published on a private forum of the terrorist network on Sept. 3, and had been viewed 198 times by mid-day Sept. 4.
Data extracted from the notice by BOC details the plan, and shows it was viewed by potential terrorists in Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, Florida, and Nice.
A description on the planned attack from BOC advises government agencies to escalate their terror threat levels, and to “Advise vendors of consumer perishables that are open and readily accessible to diligently monitor customers lingering during non-peak shopping hours.”
The group allegedly calls itself the “Knights of Lone Jihad,” and its post contains a graphic of a blood-covered hand with “First Method Poison” written next to it.
A hashtag on the image suggests the ISIS fighters have ties to Wilayat al-Furat, or Euphrates Province in English, which was the administrative division the terrorist organization established on the border of Iraq and Syria.
ISIS began its rise in its self-declared Wilayat al-Furat region and nearby areas. A key ISIS propaganda channel, which the latest notice appears to be tied to, uses the name of the region.
The notice tells terrorists “You have the following method—poisoning the kuffar,” and tells them to inject poison into foods in markets. The Arabic word, “kuffar,” is a derogatory term for non-Muslims.
The communication updates the objectives of the terrorist group to call for attacks “in Europe and the disbelieving West and everywhere else,” using any means. It then celebrates many of the terrorist attacks that have been carried out in Europe and elsewhere, saying they have caused a “state of alert, terror, fear, and loss of security.”
Terror’s Origins
ISIS became a terror threat in part because disorder in Iraq gave it an opportunity to grow and to seize territory.
President Donald Trump has updated the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to ensure it doesn’t repeat what took place with the Obama administration’s withdrawal from Iraq, which allowed ISIS to seize control.
“The vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for ISIS to spread, to grow, recruit, and launch attacks,” Trump said on Aug. 21. “We cannot repeat in Afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in Iraq.”
When terrorists launched attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which destroyed the World Trade Center, and killed 2,996 people and injured over 6,000, Afghanistan was a hotbed for terrorists, and was a base for al-Qaeda.
Trump noted that, at time of the 2001 attacks, Afghanistan was “ruled by a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists,” and said in the current state, “A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as happened before September 11th.”
With the new strategy, the U.S. military will no longer be focused on trying to export its governmental system to Afghanistan. Trump said, “We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live, or how to govern their own complex society. We are not nation-building again. We are killing terrorists.”
From The Epoch Times
