2. Using Google translate, here's what it says: "Explosive device in subway in London implemented by a detachment of the Islamic state"
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3. Language they're using - "a detachment" - means they want us to believe that more than 1 attacker was involved. (Remains to be seen)
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4. An interesting thing: ISIS typically doesn't claim when an attacker is still at large. Everything we know suggests attacker is on the lam
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5. I'm puzzled by analysts who call events like today's "a failed terrorist attack." 29 people were hospitalized. Maybe we should ask them.
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6. From ISIS' standpoint, this is a success. Whether person doing this was inspired or directed by them, purpose of terror is to terrorize
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7. After every attack, I add to my folder titled "They Claim Everything." Fact: Few are cases where IS claimed an attack + 0 link was foundpic.twitter.com/YvDVDxDWyH
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8. The thing to understand is that ISIS unlike the rest of us does not distinguish bet fighters dispatched by them + those inspired by them
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9. IS refers to the guy who blows himself up in Mosul + guy who uses a kitchen knife to stab someone in Ohio as "soldiers of the Caliphate"
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10. ISIS has now released an official claim on its Nashir portal. This is the usual chain of custody for ISIS (Amaq, then Nashir):pic.twitter.com/GijW0DBS2m
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11. The Nashir claim says that they harmed "30 crusaders." (As per usual they inflate the casualty figure; NYT has 29 hospitalized.)
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12. According to
@siteintelgroup's translation, the communique from ISIS refers to soldiers of the Islamic State (plural) and bombs (plural)pic.twitter.com/bpw2oBxhz2
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13. Sky News reporter quotes Scotland Yard confirming that they are looking for more than one suspect:pic.twitter.com/OVl5kuuq76
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14. One of the best reporters on this beat
@CruickshankPaul is reporting that TATP was "likely" used. This is ISIS' signature explosivepic.twitter.com/kaT0v4RmVo
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15. Last year, in an effort to better understand mechanics of ISIS attacks, I travelled to a lab in Rhode Island to see the effects of TATP
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16. See the video done by my colleagues after we visited the lab showing what 1 tablespoon of TATP does:https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000004281038/isis-signature-explosive-in-europe.html …
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