Barely minutes after international terrorist organisation ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre in Las Vegas that killed at least 50 people and injured over 400, a senior US-based journalist shared a thread on Twitter that has since gone viral, highlighting instances where the Islamic State claimed responsibility, but investigations revealed otherwise. The FBI, too, on Monday said no international group was involved in the massacre. "As this event unfolds we have determined to this point no connection with an international terrorist group," said Aaron Rouse, the special agent in-charge of the Las Vegas office of the FBI
Paul Cruickshank, who is a terrorism analyst, in the thread, said, “ISIS in recent months has made a number of demonstrably false claims for attacks and incidents that had no jihadi terror nexus. Exhibit A of a false ISIS claim was their claim for attack on Manila, Philippines casino resort in June.Perpetrator was indebted gambler. Exhibit B of a false ISIS claim was their claim to have smuggled explosives into CDG airport in Paris last month. In actual fact the CDG security alert was caused by verbal threats by an angry female passenger in her 50s not allowed onto flight. Conclusion: ISIS, desperate for attention, will claim just about anything these days knowing their supporters won't believe government or the media,” he said in a series of tweets.
Cruickshank may be onto something. Only recently, the Iraqi army had announced the end of Islamic State terror in the city of Mosul that had been under IS rule for some years. In July this year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul, three years after the terrorists seized the city and made it the stronghold of a “caliphate” they said would take over the world. A 100,000-strong alliance of Iraqi government units, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shi‘ite militias launched the offensive to recapture the northern city from the militants in October, with key air and ground support from a US-led coalition.
A February 2017 New York Post article quoting an Ernst and Young report stated that ISIS’s revenue has declined from up to $1.9 billion in 2014 to at most $870 million in 2016.
The report added that most of the recent attacks in Europe and the U.S. were self-financed by the people that carried them out, with little input or money from the IS leadership in the war zone of Syria and Iraq.
With the terrorist organisation losing the war in both Iraq and Syria, it can’t afford to conduct any mainstream attack, is what experts believe. While they don’t rule the organisation of orchestrating an attack, they believe that the organisation needs to go back to the drawing board before they actually terrorise the world.
Until then, they will only claim terror without proving anything and try and stay relevant.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
 "vegas")
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}