Noticeable propaganda during the World Cup
Monday 20/August/2018 - 05:42 PM
Daesh (The Islamic State) was able to recruit only 250 to 500 fighters in Yemen (out of 6,000 to 7,000 fighters in the Arabian Peninsula), and some 3,000 to 4,000 fighters in Libya and 3,500 to 4,000 fighters in Afghanistan.
According to the report, the central authority of Daesh continues to re-direct its most important agents towards Afghanistan, and warned a member state that a number of foreign terrorists from Algeria, France, Federations of Russia, Tunisia and Asian countries have arrived in the country. Another country noted that "some of the terrorist attacks thwarted in Europe were planned in advance by the terrorist organization in Afghanistan".
The report also says that Daesh continues to use social media network sites to encourage its sympathizers in Europe to carry out attacks in their countries of residence.
“The World Cup is an occasion to intensify an unprecedented propaganda aimed at isolated or independent elements to implement strikes during the world event," the report said.
The report referred to the "thousands of active supporters on the Internet, who would in a moment become new recruits." The Daesh organization continued to broadcast different ways of carrying out attacks, along with instructions on how to manufacture bombs and explosive belts, and focused in the recent period on more motivation to carry out the attacks rather than to facilitate them, because of the decline of its ability to move on the ground."
Experts point out, however, that "Daesh organization and al Qaeda are leaning towards more sophisticated methods, such as the use of chemicals and remotely explosive objects".
Finally, the issue of "returnees" from the Syrian-Iraqi region, which is very small in contrast to all expectations, is a cause of fear because of the "increasing threat that these individuals pose if they transfer their experience and knowledge in the field of unmanned aircraft, aerial vehicles, improvised explosive devices and car bombs. Some Daesh veterans have significant experience in manufacturing weapons from commercially traded materials.
The report concludes that in Europe, "despite the weakness of its central structure and the decline in the quality of its propaganda apparatus," the many messages" that Daesh sends find resonance in the promotion of extremism, recruitment and training."
