The Daesh terrorist group has vowed “revenge” over the killing of its former chief, urging supporters to reap the benefits of the battle in Ukraine to stage assaults in Europe.
“We announce, counting on God, a blessed marketing campaign to take revenge” over the demise of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi and the group’s former spokesman, stated an audio message attributed to the group and circulated on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.
The group’s new spokesman, Abu-Omar al-Muhajir, referred to as on supporters to scale up assaults in Europe, making the most of the “out there alternative” of “the crusaders combating one another,” in an obvious reference to the raging battle in Ukraine.
The previous Daesh chief was reportedly killed in early February throughout an unlawful helicopter raid by invading US Special Forces within the northwest Syrian city of Atmeh close to the Turkish border.
The US raid within the northern Idlib province managed by Turkey-backed Takfiri terrorists additionally killed 13 civilians, together with girls and 6 kids, in accordance with the UN and rights teams.
The American army first claimed – with none proof — that the Daesh chief killed himself and his household by detonating an explosive after the assault however later retracted the account amid rising criticism, citing native witnesses.
The terrorist group confirmed Qurashi’s demise on March 10 and launched Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as the brand new chief. Little is thought about him, the group’s third chief since its inception.
The group’s new terrorist menace in Europe comes as Western governments, together with the US, largely ignored warnings about Daesh’s practically open recruitment of combating forces throughout Europe and their switch – via Turkey – to Syria, the place the West, together with its regional allies, was sponsoring a large terror marketing campaign to topple the federal government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The warnings concerning the huge recruitment of Europe-based terrorists fueled considerations concerning the prospect of battlefield-trained terrorists returning to Europe and doubtlessly waging terror assaults there.
Quite a few assaults have been staged throughout Europe by Daesh insurgents lately.
The US army has lengthy been suspected of coaching and aiding Daesh and different terrorist teams in Syria and Iraq of their bid to destabilize each Arab nations, justify the deployment of troops within the areas and undermine native anti-Israeli resistance forces.
The event comes amid reviews that the US army secretly transferred numerous Daesh members from al-Khan al-Jabal Camp in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province, which is run by allied Kurdish militants, to a facility in neighboring Iraq.
Syria’s official information company, SANA, reported final Thursday that American forces relocated a whole bunch of Daesh terrorists and their households on board heavy-duty inmate transports, and the autos had been escorted by militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The US forces used a convoy of greater than 200 autos to move them to Iraq via the unlawful al-Waleed crossing, it added.
The US army incessantly trains anti-Damascus militants on the al-Tanf base close to Syria’s borders with Iraq and Jordan.
A number of captured Daesh terrorists have already confessed to their cooperation with US army forces stationed at al-Tanf within the central Syrian province of Homs in finishing up acts of terror and sabotage.
Washington has unilaterally declared a 55-kilometer “de-confliction zone” across the facility and incessantly threatened to focus on Syrian forces within the space.
The US army has stationed forces and gear in japanese and northeastern Syria, claiming that it goals at stopping the oilfields within the space from falling into the arms of Daesh terrorists.
Damascus, nevertheless, insists the illegal deployment is supposed to plunder the nation’s wealthy power assets.
