Travellers
may experience airport delays and holiday disruptions if the U.S.
Government decides to tighten security measures ahead of new
intelligence signalling a possible airliner attack.
Concerns
a new generation of innovation in bomb making is being developed in the
battlegrounds of Iraq and Syria could prompt a tightening of security
across European and U.S. airports.
It
would likely disrupt travel plans and cause airport chaos for those
heading away this summer, although the U.S. Government has not yet
formally declared what it intends to do.
The
intelligence has revealed the groups are developing new covert weapons
as well as recruiting willing plot members from the large number of
foreigners currently fighting in the region.
Many
of these radicalised fighters carry European and U.S. passports and
have travelled to the region to help ISIS establish its Islamic State,
or join the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al Nusrah Front.
The U.S. is considering a crackdown on airport
security after new intelligence was received, with concerns there could
be a new generation of bomb making technology underway
ISIS has been responsible for executions and other atrocities during its surge to the edge of Baghdad
ABC News
reported U.S. analysts believed a section of extreme terrorists in
Syria were planning to attack a U.S. or Europe-bound plane, aided by any
number of the thousands of U.S. or European passport holders fighting
in the region.
To
try and stop the attacks, one source told the network the new airport
security measures could include increasing rates of random screenings,
targeting certain types of travellers and increasing its armed air
marshall presence.
Fighting
across the region has been brutal in recent weeks with ISIS carrying
out mass executions and crucifixions so blood thirsty it has been
branded too extreme by Al-Qaeda.
The United Nations said more
than 2,400 Iraqis had been killed in June alone, making the current
violence the most deadly since the height of sectarian warfare in 2007.
This chilling shot from an ISIS video purports to show the execution of Iraqi soldiers in the Salaheddin province
A rally took place in Iran last week airing the public's opposition to the militant ISIS jihadists
Khazair, Iraq, is home to an estimated 1,500 displaced locals caught up in the fighting around Mosul
ISIS
yesterday declared it would now call itself The Islamic State – to
reflect the territory it controls across Syria and Iraq and its goal of
establishing an Islamic state across the entire Middle East, North
Africa and parts of Europe by the year 2020.
The
announcement, made on the first day of the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan, could trigger a wave of infighting among Sunni extremist
factions that have until now formed a loose rebel alliance.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS and the person to announce the creation of the new Islamic state
A
spokesman for ISIS declared the group's chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as
the leader of the new caliphate, or Islamic state, and called on Muslims
everywhere, not just those in areas under the organization's control,
to swear loyalty to him.
The
group currently controls a large slice of Syria and Iraq, and conquered
large swathes of territory at breakneck pace in recent weeks before
slowing down when it found itself at the edge of Baghdad.
As
well as plans to expand its caliphate throughout the Middle East, North
Africa, and large parts of western Asia, the map also marks out an
expansion in parts of Europe.
Spain,
which was ruled by Muslims for 700 years until 1492, is marked out as a
territory the caliphate plans to have under its control by 2020.
Elsewhere,
ISIS plans to take control of the the Balkan states - including Greece,
Romania and Bulgaria - extending its territories in eastern Europe as
far as Austria, which appears to be based on a pre-First World War
borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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