Singapore:
Singapore has arrested a teenage boy who was allegedly planning an ISIS-inspired terror assault on a busy suburb, the inside minister mentioned Friday, including it was a “very shut shave”.
After watching Islamic State propaganda glorifying knife assaults, the 17-year-old visited the suburb to rehearse his assault earlier than he was arrested in August, Dwelling Minister Okay. Shanmugam mentioned.
“He was fairly critical as a result of he truly practised stabbing motions with the scissors. He checked out which place would trigger demise — principally the neck space — so he practised hitting on the neck,” Shanmugam informed reporters.
“I might say this was a really shut shave. It is vitally lucky that ISD (Inside Safety Division) arrested him in time.”
{The teenager}, detained below the Inside Safety Act, had allegedly deliberate a stabbing spree to coincide with college holidays in September when the world can be teeming with folks.
In an announcement launched on Friday, ISD mentioned {the teenager} was uncovered to the deluge of on-line extremist supplies posted by the Islamic State group after Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7 final yr.
“He joined varied on-line teams which offered updates on ISIS’s actions and purchased into ISIS’s rhetoric of selling the usage of violence to determine an Islamic caliphate,” ISD mentioned.
By January, “the youth had change into a staunch ISIS supporter and aspired to die as a martyr whereas preventing for the group,” it added.
He took a pledge of allegiance to IS and meant to journey to Syria to battle there, in line with ISD.
{The teenager} acted alone as he was unable to radicalise different folks, ISD added.
His household seen him watching movies of radical preachers and suggested him to cease, however he continued, utilizing “codewords” when discussing his beliefs on-line, the division mentioned.
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