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LONDON: An Islamic State (IS) manual for preparing, funding and carrying out terror attacks in the West is being shared on jihadist forums on the internet, asking extremists to raise funds through online scams and fraud.



London, April 18 

An Islamic State (IS) manual for preparing, funding and carrying out terror attacks in the West is being shared on jihadist forums on the internet, asking extremists to raise funds through online scams and fraud.

The 70-page guide aims to create sleeper cells of one or two people and advises would-be terrorists to change their name, alter their appearance and westernise their ways, according to a report in ‘The Times’.

Written in fluent English, the guide asks jihadists to raise funds through online scams and fraud, and tells readers: “If the [shedding of] non-Muslim blood is permitted by scholars, then no doubt their wealth is.”

As of November 2014, Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism internet unit had targeted 55,000 sites and forums hosting jihadist material.

The elements in the guide that will most concern security services relate to the making and handling of crude weapons, and references to designing homemade bombs and mobile-phone detonators.

One section instructs its sympathisers to eschew Islamic clothing, to wear coloured contact lenses that give you a distinctive look to confuse witnesses giving your description and adopt a westernised pseudonym. — PTI

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