The Hill recently noted that a plethora of Islamic State group propaganda posters have emerged recently that call for and threaten lone wolf attacks in various cities and important sites across Europe and the U.S., timed to coincide with Christmas and New Year celebrations.
While such threats are nothing new, and have been taken by some as a sign of the group’s weakening position, they must still be taken quite seriously, particularly since they show that the organization has adapted their techniques to get around counterterrorism efforts by Western nations.
According to the U.K. Daily Mail, some of the propaganda posters threatening holiday attacks in Europe explicitly mention that they will be carried out on foot, obviously a bid to get around the anti-vehicle bollards that have been installed in many locations to guard against the increasingly common vehicle attacks.
One of the posters, which shows an armed and masked jihadist lurking in the background, declared, “If you put barriers to cars in front of markets, you will not prevent people entering them on foot.”
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