Exclusive: ISIS Puts Out Holiday Attack List Of U.S. Churches
The terror group threatened "bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year"
USA
By Gilad Shiloach
Dec 22, 2016 at 4:19 AM ET
The Islamic State published the names and addresses of thousands of churches in the United States and called on its adherents to attack them during the holiday season, according to a message posted late-night Wednesday in the group’s “Secrets of Jihadis” social media group.
A user going by the name of “Abu Marya al-Iraqi” posted an Arabic-language message calling “for bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year” and announced the group’s plans to utilize its network of lone wolf attackers to “turn the Christian New Year into a bloody horror movie.”
The series of messages appeared in a pro-ISIS group on Telegram, which also provides manuals for the use and preparations of weapons and explosives for aspiring assailants. The information, distributed in a number of posts, was all previously available online and includes a public directory of churches across all 50 states. (Vocativ does not publish specific information found in lists like these.)
http://www.vocativ.com/386579/isis-lists-u-s-churches-to-attack-during-the-holidays/
