Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani recently called on Muslims to use this Ramadan to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America.”

“French suspected Islamist ‘planned knife and machete attack’ on English and American tourists,” by Henry Samuel, Telegraph, June 16, 2016:

A radicalised 22-year old has been arrested in southwestern France with a knife and machete on suspicion of intending to attack “English and American tourists, then security forces”, according to French reports. Officers from France’s intelligence agency, DGSI, arrested the terror suspect on Monday night at the train station of Carcassonne, a fortified town an hour’s drive from Toulouse – where four matches of the Euro 2016 football tournament are taking place. According to La Dépêche du Midi, the local newspaper, the unnamed suspect was on a security “S” watch list for potentially dangerous individuals, including would-be jihadists. He “confessed to investigators that he wanted to attack English and American tourists, before launching an attack on security forces – police and military,” wrote Le Dépêche. According to Le Parisien, the man also said he intended to target Russians. Arrested with an “Opinel knife and machete”, he is being held for questioning under suspicion of “links to criminals planning a terrorist act”. The suspect reportedly comes from Lunel, a town that has been dubbed the “Molenbeek” of the southwestern Hérault region, in reference to the Brussels district home to several of the perpetrators of the Paris attacks of last November, and those in the Belgian capital in March. At least 20 individuals aged between 18 and 30 have travelled from Lunel to fight alongside Islamists in Syria and Iraq since October 2014, including eight who have died there. More have been prevented from leaving by French intelligence.

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