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Israel Raids Homes of Islamic State Suspects, Arrests 2
2022-03-30
[An Nahar] Israeli security services raided the homes of at least 12 Arab citizens and arrested two suspected of having ties 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in a crackdown sparked by recent deadly attacks, authorities said Tuesday.

Hours before the raid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the recent assaults inside Israel, which killed six people, marked a "new situation" that required stepped-up security measures.

Law enforcement officials said 31 homes and sites were searched overnight in northern Israel, an area that was home to the button men who killed two coppers and maimed four more people in the city of Hadera over the weekend.

The Islamic State group claimed Sunday's attack, as well as a stabbing rampage in southern Israel last Tuesday in which four people were killed. Police shot and killed the two button men, and the stabber was shot and killed by a passerby, police said.

Israeli leaders condemned the killings and pointed to the timing. Both attacks came ahead of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan and Sunday's killings came on the eve of a high-profile meeting between the foreign ministers of four Arab nations and the United States in the Israeli Negev. All four Arab nations — Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates — along with the United States, condemned the killings.

Ramadan is expected to begin on Saturday. Last year, festivities between Israeli police and Moslem protesters during the holy month boiled over into an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, the Islamic Death Eater group that rules Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Hamas praised the shooting as a "heroic operation."

Attacks by IS inside Israel are rare.

The group operates mainly in Iraq and Syria, where it has recently stepped up attacks against security forces. It no longer controls any territory but operates through sleeper cells. IS has claimed attacks against Israeli troops in the past and has branches in Afghanistan and other countries.

Posted by:Fred

#2  It’s just marketing, Dron. ISIS has the reputation of being the nastiest jihadis around, so lots of those not already accredited elsewhere claim the label so they can look kewl, too.

They used to claim to be Al Qaeda, even though technically they were unaffiliated, because those were the videos they used to self-radicalize. Which is different than those who actually were seduced by the silver-tongued professional groomer calling over the internet from the home base in Raqqa/Yemen/Somalia/wherever the latest hotspot might be.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-03-30 13:36  

#1  This is how it works. IS works on the gig principle. You have islamic angst and wanna let loose, you go ahead and do it. If you're successful the IS claims it and you're suddenly a great emir. of course you're dead or in jail but the glory is yours and IS gets the points.

They don't really have the capacity for much except communications online and some payments. Outsourcing the action to willing recruits and guys already trained by any Islamist org. The only activity IS does is attract and convince the wolves to give them credit. I'm sure there's a business term for it I don't remember right now.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-03-30 12:39  

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