вЂњAdnani has been a key figure in external planning since ISIS rose to prominence over a year ago,вЂќ said Matthew G.

Adnani now has a $5 million bounty on his head, offered by the United States, and is on the kill list for the American-led air campaign in Iraq and Syria. Do not ask for anyoneвЂ™s advice.вЂќДЄs a result, Mr. вЂњThen rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way, however it may be. вЂњIf you can, kill a disbelieving American or European - especially the spiteful and filthy French - or an Australian, or a Canadian,вЂќ he said. Adnani is best known for a 42-minute audio statement issued on social media in September 2014 in which he called on individual Muslims living in the West to kill civilians in their countries by any means necessary, and to do so without waiting for further instructions from the terrorist groupвЂ™s leaders. Adnani has drawn intensified scrutiny from Western officials. But it is in his role as head of external operations that Mr. вЂњOnce the Islamic State possessed territory that provided them sanctuary and allowed them to act with impunity, they like other jihadist groups inevitably turned to external attacks,вЂќ said William Wechsler, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and until last January a top counterterrorism official at the Pentagon.ДЄccording to American and European officials, the man overseeing the attacks outside Iraq and Syria is Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a 38-year-old Syrian who is the official spokesman for the Islamic State and one of the most trusted lieutenants of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the groupвЂ™s supreme leader. And it upends the view held by the United States and its allies of the Islamic State as a regional threat, with a new assessment that the group poses a whole new set of risks. The Islamic StateвЂ™s overseas operations planning cell offers strategic guidance, training and funding for actions aimed at inflicting the maximum possible civilian casualties, but leaves the task of picking the time, place and manner of the attacks largely to trusted operatives on the ground, the officials said.Д¬arrying out attacks far from the Islamic StateвЂ™s base in Iraq and Syria represents an evolution of the groupвЂ™s previous model of exhorting followers to take up arms wherever they live - but without significant help from the group. WASHINGTON - The recent attacks in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian airliner in Egypt were the first results of a centrally planned terrorism campaign by a wing of the Islamic State leadership that oversees вЂњexternalвЂќ targets, according to American and European intelligence officials.

November 11 2015 current events