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ISIS issues threat to carry out terror attacks in India, names new ‘Emir’ for Bengal

After the deadly suicide bomber attack in neighboring Sri Lanka where more than hundred were killed and injured on Easter Sunday news security warning has arisen for India. However the intelligence inputs have time now and time again pointed at the ISIS tracks in the Indian Subcontinent, for the first time the dreaded group has issued a straight threatening on Tuesday to carry out terror attacks in India.

As per to the recent reports, the ISIS has named a new ‘Emir’ for Bengal. The report said that one Abu Muhammed al-Bengali has been chosen as new ‘emir’ for ISIS in the area.

The report quoted the ISIS poster as stating, “If you think you have silenced the soldiers of the Khilafa in Bengal and Hind and you are certain about that then listen we men are never to be silenced… Thirst for revenge is never faded away (sic)”.

The development comes just a day after Islamic State passed out a minor blast near a cinema theatre located in Dhaka. The minor explosion took place on Monday near Gulistan theatre nearby 7.30. Though no fatalities were stated as there was certain problem with the bomb assemblage, a small number of policemen did bear injuries in the blast.

The expansion arises just two days after a new publicity video of ISIS’ elusive chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared online.  “The battle for Baghouz is over,” he said, sitting cross-legged on a cushion and addressing three men whose faces have been blurred.

The 18 minute video was titled as “In the Hospitality of the Emir of the Believers,” and in that video Baghdadi was seen sitting together with three other ISIS members whose faces are blurred, next to a rifle as well as ammo belt. He acclaimed the current terror attacks in Sri Lanka, which attacked churches and hotels as well as left more than 250 people dead, calling it “revenge” for Baghouz — the small Syrian rural community where Isis made its last outlook.

The ISIS claimed the attacks, but the government has accused local Islamist radical group National Thowheeth Jamaath (NTJ) for the attacks. On Saturday, Sri Lanka banned the NTJ and a splinter group which are linked to the ISIS.

An officer said, “It is serious.. IS has just managed to pull of serial blast in Colombo through a local outfit called Tawheed Jamaat. Bangladesh already has a strong Islamic State presence with a section of the local terrorist organisation named Jamatul Mujahideen (New-JMB) being affiliated to the ISIS central.”

There are total number of 106 suspects, as well as a Tamil medium teacher and a school principal, who have been arrested in linking with the Easter Sunday explosions.

As per to the Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry, the total number of foreign nationals who have been recognized as killed stayed at 40, comprising 11 from India.

On March 22, President Donald Trump declared that all ISIS-held region in Syria has been eradicated, however officials said sporadic fighting sustained on the ground in the middle of alliance forces and the group’s holdouts.

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