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Dramatic undercover footage of a European ISIS group has exposed terrorists' plans to blown up a passenger plane in Europe with a rocket launcher.

A Muslim journalist wearing a hidden camera was able to infiltrate a terror cell in Paris to give an insight into the minds of young aspiring terrorists who claim the plot would "traumatise France for a century.".

Among their discussions one of the jihadis pointed at a plane overhead and said that by using a "little rocket-launcher" the group would be able to cause devastation for the whole country.

The reporter, who describes himself as a Muslim "of the same generation as the killers" that carried out the November slaughters in Paris , gained access to the group by using the pseudonym Said Ramzi.

He initially gained their trust by approaching groups preaching jihad on Facebook and despite spending six months pretending to be part of their deadly cell, Ramzi revealed the main discoveries he made was that he 'never saw any Islam' basis behind their plots.

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His investigation was part of a documentary called "Allah's Soldiers", which will be show in France tonight.

During his covert operation, Ramzi was invited to meet the leader of the group - made up of about a dozen youths - presented as the "emir" at a deserted outdoor activities centre in Chateauroux, centre-west of France.

The emir was a young French-Turkish citizen named Oussama, who told him that paradise awaits him if he carries out a suicide mission.

"Towards paradise, that is the path," Oussama said. "Come, brother, let's go to paradise, our women are waiting for us there, with angels as servants.

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"You will have a palace, a winged horse of gold and rubies."

At another meeting in front of a mosque in Paris, a member of the group pointed to an airplane coming in to land at the nearby Bourget airport and suggested they could 'easily' blow it up.

"With a little rocket-launcher, you can easily get one of them... you do something like that in the name of Dawla (ISIS), and France will be traumatised for a century," he says.

Some of the gang tried to reach ISIS in Syria, including Oussama, who was arrested by police in Turkey and handed back to France where he spent five months in prison.

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Despite having to return to the police station to answer his bail every day, he was still able to stay in touch with the group using encrypted messaging application Telegram.

In a meeting with the journalist, one of the terrorists tells him: "Only death can await us - or arrest.

"We aren’t going to come out with our hands like this… [puts hands up].

"That is forbidden, brother."

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He's then asked: "How do you come out?"

"A big kick at the door, with whatever you want," he replies.

"I won’t make too many gestures. You never know if they are watching us.

"And ra-ta-ta-ta (mimics the sound of gunfire) … Until you have taken at least 20 bullets in the body.

"They will be a relief... because a martyr doesn’t feel pain."

Eventually police cracked down on the group and several members were arrested.

But one of them who evaded capture sent a message to the journalist saying: "You're done for man", prompting Ramzi to end his undercover investigation.