The Texas Attack: An Expression of Daesh’s Reach?

Raffaello Pantucci examines the 'reach' of ISIS:

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The jihadist movement known as Daesh has claimed responsibility for the aborted attack on an art contest in Texas. But other than shared motives, there are hardly anyreal linkages. Overreaction and misreading of the threat will merely play into their hands.

At the same time, it is not clear that this is in any way an expression of the beginning of a campaign by the group to launch terrorist attacks outside its territory or that we need to worry about Daesh anymore now than before. Rather, Daesh continues to show itself to be an opportunistically canny organisation that is able to read global trends and stoke public debates at the right moment to maximise their apparent reach and power.

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Link:https://www.rusi.org/analysis/commen.../#.VVJ3gfA0piW

Added as a new thread as the main ISIS thread has a Middle East regional focus and has a number of wider issues e.g. ideology.