ISIS threatens to carry out terrorist attack in Christmas celebrations

Country music star Jason Aldean was centre stage smashing out the closing performance on the third and final day of the Route 91 Harvest Festival when shots rang out.

But as bodies began to fall in quick succession, panic swept through the 15-acre site of the music festival in downtown Las Vegas.

Across the street, 32-storeys up, from two adjoining suites in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, came a flood of more than 1000 bullets from 15 separate weapons.

The distance and darkness meant Stephen Paddock wouldn’t have seen individual targets. He killed 58 people and wounded 413, but in the resulting chaos some 850 people were injured.

After an exhaustive investigation involving 1000 personnel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including its renowned Behavioural Analysis Unit, no-one can definitively say.

There’s no “single or clear motivating factor” for the deadliest mass shooting in American history, and one of the world’s most shocking crimes of the modern era.

In an Australian exclusive, Special Agent Aaron Rouse, the FBI’s lead investigator, takes news.com.au inside the search for answers, and into the mind of an “ordinary” monster.

After al-Baghdadi…ISIS and atypical terrorism

After the killing of the former ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in October 2019, ISIS media platforms broadcast a new series of incitement to target American sites and facilities, in revenge for the killing of their leader by a special unit of the US Delta Force.

Calls for carrying out terrorist attacks increased as the Christmas season approached, as an “informal” ISIS-affiliated institution published a dialogue with the so-called prince of media organizations who support ISIS.

During his written interview, the pro-ISIS organizations vowed to carry out terrorist attacks inside the United States, pointing out: “The United States is on the verge of perishing, and the black flags of punishment will fly over the White House”.

The terrorist organization, through its telegram channels, also called for the assassination of US officials, commanders and military officials.

And ISIS channels broadcasted a design showing a terrorist member, with a knife, while US President Donald Trump kneeled under his feet.

The terrorist organization also called for the use of balloons “flying” balloons in carrying out atypical attacks by using them to fly in the air to drop bombs or explosive devices on vital places such as the White House.

Elements of the terrorist organization developed a number of guidelines for carrying out terrorist attacks, including the use of trucks to run over, set fires in forest areas, target gas stations and set them on fire.

Lone wolves… ISIS spear in the heart of America

A few weeks ago, Al-Naba’a ISIS newspaper published a series of advice to Lone wolves in the United States and European countries about carrying out terrorist attacks and withdrawing safely from the attack site.

Since the launch of the international coalition for the ISIS war, “ISIS” known for its “solid resolve and founded in 2014” incited its supporters to launch attacks by individual wolves tactics to relieve the pressure on ISIS fighters in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan.

The incitement increased during the past weeks, coinciding with the approaching Christmas holidays, which ISIS considers an opportunity to carry out bloody attacks.

A number of Lone ISIS wolves have planned to carry out attacks in the Christmas season, and the US authorities succeeded in arresting one of them, Zachary Clark, in late November, after he participated in preparing plans to carry out terrorist attacks inside the United States, in addition to providing support to ISIS supporters.

ISIS networks and trying to penetrate the American borders

ISIS member named Abu Hanriqi Al-Kindi (currently detained by the SDF), participated with a number of American fighters, including Abu Adam, the American, and Abu Elias, the American, in developing a plan to penetrate borders and carry out attacks against “financial” institutions inside the United States.

It was scheduled to send ISIS elements who will carry out the attacks to «Puerto Rico», an island in the Caribbean Sea, and from there to Mexico, then enter them as smuggling to the United States, but the plan was not completed for reasons related to the fighters involved in the implementation.