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IS cells remain active in Syria and Iraq (archive image). © Uncredited/Militant website/AP/dpa
IS terrorists announce attacks around the world - during Ramadan. According to the federal government, the terrorist threat in Germany is currently “acute”.
Munich - A week after the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall event center in the northwest of Moscow, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack again on Thursday (March 28). In a 40-minute audio message, the spokesman for the terrorist militia, Abu Hudhaifah al-Ansari, announced further IS attacks and appealed in particular to “lone wolves”.
Islamic State announces attacks on Europe and USA during Ramadan
The IS spokesman called on the movement's "lone wolves" to "attack and target Crusaders (Christians) and Jews everywhere" during the current fasting month of Ramadan, especially in Europe and the USA as well as in the heart of the Jewish state and in Palestine . The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan lasts from March 10th to April 9th this year. Those terrorists who plan their attacks alone are considered “lone wolves”. The terrorist attack in Moscow is attributed to the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISPK).
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) told the Süddeutsche Zeitung
that the suspected IS offshoot is “currently the biggest Islamist threat in Germany.
” According to the federal government, the terrorist threat in Germany is currently “acute”. Terrorism expert Peter Neumann also sees a “quite significant” terrorist threat in Germany and Western Europe. Since the beginning of the Gaza war in October, there has been a huge "mobilization of Islamists, of jihadists all over Western Europe," Neumann said on
Deutschlandfunk
on Monday .
Photo of the Crocus City Hall event center in northwest Moscow after the terrorist attack. The IS terrorist militia claimed responsibility for the attack. © IMAGO/Russian Emergencies Ministry/Itar-Tass
IS cells remain active: IS spokesman recalls the proclamation of the IS caliphate ten years ago
In his audio message on Thursday, IS spokesman Al-Ansari also recalled the proclamation of the so-called IS caliphate ten years ago. At that time, the terrorist militia had large areas of civil war-torn Syria and neighboring Iraq under control. The extremists have now lost their territory again. However, IS cells are still active in both countries. According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the origins of the Islamic State go back to the group “al-Tawheed wa al-Jihad,” which was founded in 2003. Initially, IS was part of the Islamist terrorist organization Al Qaeda.
Secret documents from 2014 showed that the Islamic State not only calls itself that, but actually acts like a state and is very well organized. In an analysis at the time, the Federal Intelligence Service came to the conclusion that this contributed to the terrorist militia's attractiveness and that IS represented "a greater challenge for the Western community of states" than Al Qaeda. Unlike Al Qaeda, IS offers life in a caliphate.
New terrorist threat to Europe: Growing threat from ISPK in Germany
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According to terrorism expert Peter Neumann, in addition to the danger posed by IS, there is now also “the ISPK, i.e. this offshoot of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, Central Asia,” which is “very ambitiously and aggressively attempting attacks in non-Muslim foreign countries, including Western Europe.” The ISPK has its origins in Afghanistan. Khorasan represents a historical region in Central Asia that included parts of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan as well as Iran.
These are some of the dangers that come together here, “where I say that the greatest current terrorist threat in Germany, in Europe, is now again from the Islamist, jihadist side,” Neumann continued. It is always a difficult balance for politicians to make people aware that such a danger actually exists and at the same time not to unnecessarily alarm people. According to Neumann, the federal government is taking a balanced approach
(bme/dpa).