The Islamic State (ISIS) announced that their armed sympathizers called ‘Lone Wolves" are responsible for the shots fired from a passing vehicle outside the home of the US Vice President in Delaware two days ago. At the time, Joe Biden and his wife Jill were not present at the house, which is several hundred yards from the main road where the shooting was believed to have occurred. A Secret Service official said that security personnel inside the residence heard the shots, and that an agent saw a vehicle driving away from the scene "at high speed". ISIS explained, at the same time, in a statement obtained by several Jihadists' websites that their fighters succeeded in seizing one of the international coalition spy planes. The Militant group released also pictures for their police forces called "Al-Hesba" in Halab when they arrested a man tried to smuggle cigarettes and then the latter received 50 lashes as a punishment. The group also arrested four young men from Syrian villages who were accused of impersonating Al-Hesba members for which they received 90 lashes as well as shaving their heads. Meanwhile, the British newspaper "The Observer" learned that a hardcore of British women who have travelled to Syria to join Isis are encouraging other women in the UK to carry out terrorist attacks back home.. The role of British female jihadists in inciting terrorism in the UK has been uncovered by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College London, which has identified a group of around 30 female Britons based in northern Syria. According to monitoring of their social media accounts, a number have been acting as Isis recruiters or openly praising the Charlie Hebdo shootings, while encouraging more bloodshed, including the beheadings of westerners. Until now, the western women joining Isis have largely been portrayed as passive – travelling to marry jihadists and bear their children away from the frontline. But as police across the UK prepare for possible attacks against them and with Europe on high alert following arrests of suspected Islamist militants in Belgium, France and Germany, the ICSR work shows that many such women are part of the escalating threat. Information from the database, which has details of 70 women, the youngest a French 15-year-old, suggests the portrayal of women as merely providing support and children for male fighters is becoming increasingly outdated. The ICSR observed a spike in social media activity following the Paris shootings, with researchers identifying a significant number of UK women praising the attacks in Paris. Among them was a 16-year-old from Manchester who celebrated the shootings on Twitter, while another British woman greeted the Charlie Hebdo shootings by saying: "May Allah help them kill as many kafirs they can #parisshooting."
