Revelations from ISIS documents obtained by the British press, remind us what makes the terrorist group a transnational threat. The human network that ISIS has woven around the world presents an outsized global danger that may endure even if the group loses its caliphate in Iraq.
The ISIS brand has been popping-up everywhere, from California to East Asia. But all ISIS threats are not equal.
In the U.S., the number of Islamist related plots has spiked in recent months. And in India, law enforcement officials recently arrested 14 youths for forming an ISIS cell. For the most part, these look like random efforts of ISIS-wannabes. This is not to argue that these threats aren’t threats. Roaming rogue terrorists can be just as deadly as extremists taking orders from terror central. On the other hand, they don’t present the threat of organizing a terror campaign capable of conducting sustained operations or multiple coordinated attacks like ISIS pulled off in Paris last year.
Revelations from ISIS documents obtained by the British press, remind us what makes the terrorist group a transnational threat. The human network that ISIS has woven around the world presents an outsized global danger that may endure even if the group loses its caliphate in Iraq.
The ISIS brand has been popping-up everywhere, from California to East Asia. But all ISIS threats are not equal.
In the U.S., the number of Islamist related plots has spiked in recent months. And in India, law enforcement officials recently arrested 14 youths for forming an ISIS cell. For the most part, these look like random efforts of ISIS-wannabes. This is not to argue that these threats aren’t threats. Roaming rogue terrorists can be just as deadly as extremists taking orders from terror central. On the other hand, they don’t present the threat of organizing a terror campaign capable of conducting sustained operations or multiple coordinated attacks like ISIS pulled off in Paris last year.