https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/world/asia/isis-messaging-app-terror-plot.html?partner=msft_msn&_r=0
Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Is Guiding Terror Plots From Afar
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHIFEB. 4, 2017
The authorities in India say a group of men plotting a terrorist attack in Hyderabad were instructed by an Islamic State handler to collect explosives material from this spot on the outskirts of the city. Credit Atul Loke for The New York Times
HYDERABAD, India — When the Islamic State identified a promising young recruit willing to carry out an attack in one of India’s major tech hubs, the group made sure to arrange everything down to the bullets he needed to kill victims.
For 17 months, terrorist operatives guided the recruit, a young engineer named Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani, through every step of what they planned to be the Islamic State’s first strike on Indian soil.
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Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani, left, and his younger brother Ilyas, whom he recruited to participate in the Hyderabad plot.
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