Posted on 10/26/2020 2:14:14 AM PDT by xomething
The grisly killing 10 days ago of a French school teacher had many of the hallmarks of past attacks carried out by the bloody Islamist terror outfit ISIS. A well-defined symbolic target in the West: Samuel Paty, a respected history and geography teacher who'd been criticized by a Muslim parent and Islamist agitator for showing satirical cartoons of the prophet Muhammad as part of his annual lesson on free speech; the brazen brutality of the act: a swift stabbing and beheading with a butcher knife on a street near the school north of Paris; online exchanges discovered later between the perpetrator, a Russian-born French resident of Chechen origin, and an operative in Idlib, Syria.
...according to Le Parisien, investigators say that the killer's contacts were with a different Islamist terror group in Syria (Haya't Tahrir El Sham, HTS) — and that the attack by the 18-year-old was neither inspired nor orchestrated by ISIS.
...security analysts and intelligence experts now report that there are signs that ISIS is coming back to life — led by al-Baghdadi's successor, who has his own reputation as a ruthless killer.
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Regeneration: Iraqi researcher and specialist of the Islamic State, Hisham al-Hashimi, explained to the French daily Ouest-France in an interview last year that ISIS has the capacity to rebuild. "This regeneration strategy has three stages: Firstly the formation and gathering of resources (soldiers and weapons). Secondly, the starting up and preparation of the terrorist system and thirdly, taking control of the territory on which the group will be able to impose its policy and create a kind of economy that will be able to support it."
It is notable that al-Hashimi himself was killed near his house in Baghdad by two unidentified gunmen on July 6, likely targeted because of his focus on the Islamic State.
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Good luck fighting ISIS, Putin. You wanted to play in the middle east hellhole. Now, you get to play.
The lamestreams have been needing some good news. Party on.
Every ISIS is Muslim terrorism and every Muslim terrorist is ISIS.
No, ISIS was a geographic area in Iraq and Syria. Allowing every Muslim terrorist in the world to call himself ISIS is just a way for MSM, aiding the terrorists, to smear Trump’s claim of having wiped out the geographic entity, which he did.
No problem, we’ve got plenty of Hellfires left for the leaders, and MOABs for their followers.
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