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Islamic State, we knew, had been increasing its presence in South Asia in recent years, managing to establish a foothold in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. Our night desk editor, Chris Scott in the US, was put on alert to expect the story.
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Our video editor, Ankur Tanwar, was awakened to start working on the video. While Parpart immediately made the call to run the story, we also agreed to create a video with our comments, to exercise caution over its authenticity and to ensure that we did not become a vehicle for ISIS’s virulent propaganda and ideology. The magic of global cellphone networks and data connectivity over WhatsApp proved to be a huge blessing. After a few quick chats with other sources, at 2259 hours I passed the video to my colleague, the Middle East editor, Alison Tahmizian Meuse, who is based in Lebanon.īy this time I had also alerted our editor, Uwe Parpart, who was in the Philippines for the Easter holidays. The video purported to be from the bombers and was released to claim responsibility for the Easter bombing attacks in Sri Lanka. The friend was not clear whether the video was genuine, but this was what he had chanced upon and he shared it hoping to find some answers. Strikes could be carried out anywhere, as long as the foot soldiers were available and sufficiently motivated to die for the cause.Ī couple of hours before midnight on April 22, a friend in India’s vast security establishment sent a video to me in New Delhi via WhatsApp. The new caliphate began declaring “provinces” as far afield as Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and the historic Khorasan region on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, while supporters were recruited over the Internet. The declaration of a physical caliphate took Al-Qaeda’s operating model even farther. Finally, in June of the following year, ISIS pronounced itself a caliphate, to be known only as the Islamic State.
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Unlike the past, when nationalities and ideologies were key drivers of terrorism, Al Qaeda, as its name suggested, became the “base.” It was a semi-corporation with many franchisees, who would work across the globe as collaborators espousing an ideology that transcended international boundaries and ideologies.Īl Qaeda in Iraq would become the Islamic State of Iraq and, in April 2013, would be expanded to become the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS – subsuming a local franchise that the organization’s leadership had set up amid the chaos of the Syrian civil war. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.In the period starting with Al Qaeda’s bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 the nature of terrorism has changed significantly, making it harder for reporters on the terrorism beat to sift through clues, trends and leaks from sources to piece together credible narratives. Sri Lanka witnessed a deadly terror attack on April 21 when eight blasts rocked the Island nation killing over 250 people. Intelligence agencies believe that a considerable number of Keralites are still with the ISIS which was recently wiped out from Iraq and Syria.
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We have also alerted the fishing vessels and others venturing into the sea to be cautious of suspicious activities," coastal department sources confirmed to PTI.Īfter the serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka, Kerala was on alert, especially after NIA investigations revealed that IS operatives had planned attacks in the State. "We were on alert since the Sri Lankan attack took place. The coastal police department said it was on alert since May 23, the day alert came from Sri Lanka. We have alerted the coastal police stations and the police chiefs of coastal districts to be on alert in case of any sighting of suspicious vessels," a top police source told PTI.
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"Such alerts are usual practice but this time we have specific information about the number.