How Islamic State Infiltrated Europe

The attacks in Paris and Brussels show Islamic State’s strategy of mobilizing assailants to strike in the West. The suspected attackers are homegrown, yet some traveled to Syria for training. They were guided by those with connections to Islamic State, yet act as their own operators. The resulting network is a web of agile and semi-autonomous cells. The following is a look at the formation of the terror cell that allegedly carried out the attacks.

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