Islamic State video purportedly shows youths responsible for attacks in Chechnya

The Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency has released a video showing four young males, including a boy and three other children or teenagers, who were allegedly responsible for terrorist attacks in Chechnya yesterday. The self-declared caliphate previously claimed responsibility for the incidents, which targeted police forces.

Amaq’s video is intended to underscore that Islamic State loyalists, albeit children or teenagers, were responsible.

In the Amaq video released today, three of the young males brandish knives as the fourth kneels in front of them. It is reminiscent of previous scenes produced by Baghdadi’s media shop.

Since July 2016, the Islamic State’s propagandists have released a series of similar videos documenting jihadists, many of them young males, swearing allegiance to Baghdadi before lashing out in Europe, Russia or elsewhere.

The most recent of these videos, prior to today, was released in late July. Amaq’s footage reportedly showed the five young men or adolescents responsible for running over cyclists in a July 29 attack in Tajikistan. After striking the cyclists with their vehicle, the jihadi recruits jumped out of their car and lunged at the tourists with their knives. The same modus operandi — vehicular assaults combined with stabbings — has been employed in several other attacks claimed by the Islamic State. Two Americans were among the foreigners killed in Tajikistan.

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Last Edited by Cartel™ on 08/23/2018 08:57 PM