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| Terror Networks | |
| Not ‘Lone Wolves' After All: How ISIS Guides World's Terror Plots From Afar | |
| 2017-02-07 | |
For 17 months, terrorist operatives guided the recruit, a young engineer named Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani, through every step of what they planned to be the Islamic State’s first strike on Indian soil. They vetted each new member of the cell as Mr. Yazdani recruited helpers. They taught him how to pledge allegiance to the terrorist group and securely send the statement. And from Syria, investigators believe, the group’s virtual plotters organized for the delivery of weapons as well as the precursor chemicals used to make explosives, directing the Indian men to hidden pickup spots. Until just moments before the arrest of the Indian cell, here last June, the Islamic State’s cyberplanners kept in near-constant touch with the men, according to the interrogation records of three of the eight suspects obtained by The New York Times. As officials around the world have faced a confusing barrage of attacks dedicated to the Islamic State, cases like Mr. Yazdani’s offer troubling examples of what counterterrorism experts are calling enabled or remote-controlled attacks: violence conceived and guided by operatives in areas controlled by the Islamic State whose only connection to the would-be attacker is the internet. In the most basic enabled attacks, Islamic State handlers acted as confidants and coaches, coaxing recruits to embrace violence. In the Hyderabad plot, among the most involved found so far, the terrorist group reached deep into a country with strict gun laws to arrange for pistols and ammunition to be left in a bag swinging from the branches of a tree. | |
| Posted by:newc |
| #2 This is not a crime gang it is a sectarian religious war. They don't need to do anything at all. Any teenager can pick up a koran and be radicalised enough to murder kaffirs in a suicide attack in order to get guaranteed entry to janaa as a shahid So we can all stop pretending now |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-07 03:40 |
| #1 As discussed |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-02-07 02:16 |