#ISIS attaches leaflets to walls and doors of mosques in towns in #Syria's #Deir_ez_Zor eastern countryside with the aim of sowing fear among people.https://t.co/I9hsKlpQUS
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) January 14, 2022
On Friday, residents of towns in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, were surprised to see banners of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Organization (ISIS) and leaflets attached to doors and walls of mosques.
"Residents were surprised with leaflets attached to walls of mosques bearing a message by the ISIS
The leaflets bore a phrase saying, "Do not Touch the paper" in order not to remove it, according to the source.
Residents of Abu Hamam, al-Gharanij and al-Keshkyya towns, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, removed the leaflets and downed ISIS banners that were raised in the aforementioned towns, Sources told North Press.
"The goal of spreading these leaflets is to instill fear among people in addition to blackmailing venture capitalists and traders in order to pay royalties to groups operating under ISIS name," a military source of SDF told North Press.
"SDF will pursue ISIS sleeper cells and any groups work in its name to sow horror among people, who should not believe in or response to these threats, and those who are threatened or blackmailed have to tell the military forces directly," the source added.