‘Sleeper cells are ready’: ISIS defector warns UK faces MORE
terror attacks from jihadi migrants in Europe who are waiting for their
strike order from Syria
- Former ISIS commander reveals jihadists are recruited around the world online
- Recruits are send documents, video and propaganda and told to await orders
- When they are told to do so, the sleep cells will carry out a terrorist attack
By Stewart Paterson For Mailonline
Published: 12:01, 14 October 2017 | Updated: 17:05, 14 October 2017
A former Islamic State commander has
warned ISIS are using the internet to recruit potentially deadly ISIS
sleeper cells in the UK.
ISIS leaders are sending propaganda over
the internet to further radicalise potential recruits and ‘encourage
jihad’, according to Emir Abu Abboud al-Raqqawi — who held several
high-ranking positions within the Islamic religious police force.
In an interview, he has revealed the
chilling details of how multi-lingual and sophisticate terrorist
recruiters are helping to establish sleeper cells in western Europe.
‘Migrants inside the caliphate are in
touch with their friends in the Western world. Their friends and family
in Sweden, in Germany, in France, in the UK, in Turkey, in Azerbaijan or
in other parts of the world,’ al-Raqqaqi told
expressen.se.
Terrorists in training: ISIS began to
establish itself in Yemen in 2014, using the chaos of a civil war to
convince young men and women to join them
Lining up: Propaganda videos that are sent to prospective recruits are designed to radicalise them even further
‘When they’re ordered to attack, for example, an airport or a supermarket, then they just do it,’ said the former commander
‘From within the caliphate, they’re recruiting sleeper cells in the Western world.’
One ISIS fanatic, who heads up the organisations recruiter drive, is originally from France and speaks multiple languages.
The ex-commander also detailed how potential recruits are further radicalised over the internet.
He said prospective members are sent
publications, videos and other documents that ‘encourage Jihad’ and show
Muslims being killed in Syria and Iraq.
WHO IS AL-RAQQAWI, A FORMER ISIS COMMANDER?
Abu Abboud al-Raqqawi was an ISIS
commander in Raqqa, Syria. He signed up to the terrorist group after
they seized city and claimed it as the Caliphate’s capital.
al-Raqqawi held several high-ranking positions within the Islamic religious police force, al-Hisbah.
They included Emir of ISIS’s logistics committee, a unit within the migration police and he was in command of more than 50 men.
But Abu Abboud al-Raqqawi insists that he
was not responsible for executions or torture. However, he did confirm
that he attended executions as part of his training in the Sharia camps.
Today he has escaped from Raqqa and is living elsewhere with his four wives. Abu Abboud al-Raqqawi is not his real name.
The former ISIS commander has revealed
the chilling details of how multi-lingual and sophisticate terrorist
recruiters are helping to establish sleeper cells in western Europe
Instead of being encouraged to cross
the border into Syria, foreign jihadists are being told to remain in the
home countries and carry out attacks
Due to pressure from the west, ISIS began stopping foreign jihadists from crossing into Syria.
They were instead encouraged to remain in their home countries and await orders to carry out terror attacks.
‘When they’re ordered to attack, for
example, an airport or a supermarket, then they just do it. There will
be more attacks. Even if they’re collapsing and are weaker now, sleeper
cells are awaiting orders,’ added al-Raqqawi.
His revelations follow a series of terror attacks in UK, including the Manchester Arena bombing on May 22 that 23 people.
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