The terrorist attacks launched in Paris on Friday that killed at least 129 people have been claimed by and traced back to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. It is one more sign that the Islamic State (which has seized territory the size of Maryland inside Syria and Iraq) poses a growing terrorist threat to the United States and its allies.
Within the last month, ISIS also has been implicated in the Oct. 31st downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula that killed 224 people, and a double suicide bombing attack in Beirut, Lebanon that killed at least 41 people the day before the Paris attacks.
The latest terrorist atrocity in Paris also is reminiscent of the terrorist attacks which paralyzed Paris in January. Although the two heavily armed terrorists involved in the January attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices claimed to be acting in the name of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a rival terrorist group to ISIS, one of their associates who murdered four Jewish hostages in a Kosher grocery store and a policeman claimed to be acting in the name of ISIS.
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