The Sunday Times: ’ISIL’ Militants Threaten US, UK with Terror Attacks

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British citizens fighting alongside the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" [ISIL], the most violent terrorist group operating in Syria and Iraq, are threatening to bring violent extremism back home to the UK and the West, according to the Sunday Times on Sunday.

According to the Sunday Times on Sunday, Britons fighting for the "ISIL" have made a series of menacing threats against the UK and the West, threatening that terror alerts, 9/11-style bombings and murders of British citizens will soon come to London's streets.

The threat comes from British nationals fighting for the "ISIL" in Syria and Iraq.

The Sunday Times said they promise that after they are done there, Britain is next to come. The message comes from three youth who are fighters for "ISIL."

The Times also said these are not regular disenchanted youths at all, saying that one of them is a 20-year-old hacker from Birmingham, who once stole former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's details and posted them online, later serving time for an unrelated violence charge.

Another one of the youths who has been fighting in Syria for over a year warned on June 4 that the "black flag of jihad" will fly over Downing Street on London.

Yet another youth from Portsmouth warned on Twitter that if the US does not cease threats over drone strikes on "ISIL" positions, 9/11-style attacks on America would follow.

Among his other offenses, he has also been seen posting bomb-making advice on the internet, as well as tips on how to smuggle explosive devices through airport security.

The third, also from Portsmouth, promised a "killing spree" of British citizens if he were ever to return to Britain.

The Sunday Times further wrote that getting to Syria from Britain is not as difficult as some would think: the youths simply travel to Turkey, then crossed the border. 

One of them was caught by CCTV cameras at the time, traveling on a holiday flight from London Gatwick airport to Turkey's Antalya. After reaching Turkey, they headed over to Syria by car.

Moreover, this has not been the first time the public has seen British nationals fighting alongside terrorists in the Middle East. There have been numerous threats, government monitoring of scores of returnees and reports that British extremists use Syria as a training ground before taking the battle to home soil.

Moreover, the news of their particular cruelty is widespread in Syria itself has been more striking: Britons comprise an overwhelming majority of foreigners inside "ISIL," an organization who are labeled ‘terrorists' for their bloody campaign of ruthless executions and body mutilations, even by other elements of the Syrian militant groups.

Further illustrating the scale of foreign involvement in "ISIL" operations, the US chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers, speaking to Fox News said that there are "thousands" of American and European volunteers and mercenaries fighting for "ISIL," which "has the capability to tap people with Western passports to send them back to Europe and the US for terrorist activity."

The current threats take place amid a fearsome escalation of violence in Iraq, which has been spiraling out of control the closer "ISIL" got to the capital of Baghdad, while Britain has been attempting to take steps to curb the spread of extremism on its own soil.

Sources: News Agencies, Edited by website team