Pro-ISIS Poster Threatens White House
A poster shared by pro-ISIS media outlets depicts the White House on fire while threatening the U.S. with “more terror” to come.
The poster appeared Friday on the website of the I’lam Foundation, a media hub used to disseminate propaganda for the Islamist terror organization. While it is unclear if the image was officially sanctioned by ISIS, it was produced by Al-Taqwa Media Foundation, another pro-ISIS media group that often produces propaganda posters.
The image features a type of remote weapons system with a screen bearing the message “target loading” against a backdrop of the White House engulfed in flames as it flies a tattered upside-down U.S. flag. The following message is presented within the image in bold, English-language lettering: “What is coming from us is more terror.”
Newsweek reached out for comment to the White House via email on Friday.
ISIS, also known as the Islamic State (IS), was formed in 2004 and emerged as a major international terror threat more than a decade ago. With a stated goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic caliphate, the group had lost most of the territory it controlled by 2019. It has recently experienced a resurgence.
The Afghanistan-based ISIS affiliate group ISIS-Khorasan claimed responsibility for a March mass shooting that killed at least 145 people at a concert hall near Moscow, Russia. The group went on to threaten Russia with more attacks by releasing a propaganda poster produced by the associated media group Al Azaim.
Another recent poster made by Al Azaim urges ISIS supporters “to recreate the glory” of the November 2015 Islamist terror attacks in Paris, where over 130 people were killed in mass shootings and bombings. The poster suggests that similar tactics should be used again at the Parc des Princes, a 50,000-seat soccer stadium set to host the coming 2024 Summer Olympics.
Lucas Webber, senior consultant at Valens Global and a co-founder of the Militant Wire research network, told Newsweek last month that there was a “trend” of ISIS propaganda threatening terror attacks that are later executed as advertised.
“I’ve seen this trend before,” Webber said. “They set the information space, and they start the criticisms, the threats, they identify the targets, and then every time it seems that they end up striking in the ways they say.”
ISIS-K has also launched recent attacks in Pakistan, Turkey and Iran. While there have been several attacks inside the U.S. carried out by people who were apparently inspired by the terror group, no ISIS-affiliated groups are known to have directly organized an attack that has been carried out in the U.S.
Source » msn
