The Islamic State, also known as IS or ISIS, has released a new poster warning of its plans to launch an attack on the New York subway. Following its previous threats to bomb Paris and Russia during the World Cup, the terror group said in its messaging platform that it is strengthening its global campaign.
The ISIS poster depicting the New York subway shows a tourist with a backpack as he makes his way down the High St. Brooklyn Bridge station. A ticking clock runs in the background next to a set of explosives. The poster also has the text: "You will not expect where we will attack."
Wafa Media Foundation allegedly created and released the poster, according to Rita Katz of the SITE Intelligence Group that analyzed the poster's graphics. The agency is one of a few pro-ISIS media entities that have directives from ISIS leaders to issue propaganda material.
"Though these threats should be taken seriously, there is also a publicity element to pro-ISIS media groups," Katz told the Daily Mail. Aside from stating it will attack New York and the World Cup, ISIS has also threatened the Vatican and Pope Francis, as well as Queen Elizabeth.
As ISIS has continued to slowly lose ground in the Middle East, a Christian woman abducted by ISIS in Iraq three years ago was successfully rescued. A team from the Christian group Shlama Foundation posed as jihadists who paid ISIS almost $29,000 so they could "buy" 30-year-old Rita Habib as a sex slave.
Habib and a Yazidi woman also rescued by the group were not aware that they would soon be free from the abuse until a woman posing as a jihadist told them they were not ISIS. A video showed Habib embracing her widowed father in a tearful reunion that finally ended her harrowing ordeal in the hands of the terrorists group. It was her dad who sought help from the Christian group for her rescue.
