JUDGE: Islamic State Has Flooded Europe with ‘Lone Wolves’ As Smokescreen for Larger Attacks

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
By Paul Martin

by DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
BreitBart.com
30 Mar 2016

Islamic State has begun flooding Europe with “lone wolf” attackers with orders to organise their own low-level attacks, as a smoke-screen to tie up security agencies while larger atrocities are plotted, a senior judge has warned.

Although Islamic State terrorists seized territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, they are believed to have had European targets in their sights for up to four years, aggressively recruiting European potential jihadists into Syria before sending them home as trained fighters detached from the Islamic State hierarchy.

“It served to put all of our agencies on edge. Just like a smoke screen, it allowed them to calmly prepare,” said Marc Trevidic, France’s chief counter-terrorism judge until his retirement last year.

And alarmingly, all this was happening right under the noses of American and European security forces, which at first dismissed Islamic State as little more than a lower-profile branch of al-Qaeda, the New York Times has reported.

Even when some of the European jihadists began carrying out low-level attacks, local authorities described them as isolated incidents or random acts; the links to Islamic State either overlooked or played down.

“This didn’t all of a sudden pop up in the last six months,” said Michael T. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. “They have been contemplating external attacks ever since the group moved into Syria in 2012.”

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