NYT
The
day he left Syria with instructions to carry out a terrorist attack in
France, Reda Hame, a 29-year-old computer technician from Paris, had
been a member of the Islamic State for just over a week.
His
French passport and his background in information technology made him
an ideal recruit for a rapidly expanding group within ISIS that was
dedicated to terrorizing Europe. Over just a few days, he was rushed to a
park, shown how to fire an assault rifle, handed a grenade and told to
hurl it at a human silhouette. His accelerated course included how to
use an encryption program called TrueCrypt, the first step in a process
intended to mask communications with his ISIS handler back in Syria.
The
handler, code-named Dad, drove Mr. Hame to the Turkish border and sent
him off with advice to pick an easy target, shoot as many civilians as
possible and hold hostages until the security forces made a martyr of
him.
“Be brave,” Dad said, embracing him.
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