Implications of a Battalion-Sized Force of Daesh Sleeper Cells in Europe

Thursday, March 24, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
24.03.2016

Experts speaking to the Associated Press believe that Daesh may have trained a battalion-sized force to launch new attacks on Europe. Speaking to independent Russian newspaper Svobodnaya Pressa, veteran FSB counterterrorism expert Yuri Sapunov outlined what efforts can and must be taken to combat the threat.

On Wednesday, officials speaking to the Associated Press revealed that Daesh has trained between 400 and 600 fighters “to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum chaos.”

“The network of agile and semiautonomous cells,” AP warned, “shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq.”

The warning comes from a number of European and Iraqi intelligence officials, as well as a French lawmaker familiar with jihadi networks.

The new training, one official told the news agency, means that the situation has changed dramatically since 2014. At that time, Daesh gave its fighters only a couple weeks-worth of training, meaning they were unprepared and easily detected by intelligence services. Now, the official noted, the strategy has changed, with Daesh spending more time training agents and forming special teams. Recruits are taught the tactics of warfare, explosives handling, surveillance techniques and how to defeat them, all of which makes the fight against them much more difficult and costly.

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