ISIS deployed 60 jihadists in Europe to attack 5 cities

ISIS deployed 60 jihadists in Europe as part of a plot to carry out attacks on five cities including London, Paris and Berlin before the carnage it unleashed in the French capital, according to a media report.

Intelligence obtained by Western security agencies before the November 13 Pa-ris attacks indicated that Abu Mohammed al-Adna-ni, the head of ISIS’ external operations efforts, was the key figure behind the ambitious plot, CNN repo-rted citing a senior European counter-terrorism source. As many as 60 ISIS fighters had been deployed by the group to Europe to carry out attacks on five cities and had already reached European soil, the source said.

The intelligence indicated that the target cities included Paris, London, Berlin and a major population centre in Belgium. However, there was no indication the plan was to attack the cities simultaneously. The source cautioned that the threat stream was based on intelligence which was fragmentary and difficult to verify, and it was too vague to act on.