Islamist death squads with up to 1,000 members not known by European police slipped into the continent from Syria, according to an ex-ISIS intelligence chief. Jihadi-infested sleeper cells are now primed to launch suicide attacks, according to imprisoned ex-ISIS officer Abdel Kadr, 35. The Tunisian was captured by Kurdish militia the YPG last year after travelling to Syria from Germany in 2014 on an ambulance loaded with humanitarian supplies.
He claims 1,000 ISIS “partisans” have secretly travelled to Europe, with many sent on false passports or hidden with refugees fleeing war-torn Syria.
Kadr told the Daily Beast: “There are a lot of those who were trained by ISIS to go into Europe.
“I heard about this wave that they prepared for Europe.
“They asked me if I’d like to go back to Germany. They were saying to me if you want to go back don’t worry about money, but they don’t know how I think.
“They were sending athletic guys who look European back into Europe.”
It comes after Interpol chief Jürgen Stock warned Europe should brace itself for “a second wave” of radicalised Islamist Jihadis he labelled “ISIS 2.0”.
The ISIS intelligence arm – known as “emni” – was led by a white Austrian called Abu Musa al-Almani, Kadr claimed.
Al-Almani was from a wealthy family, could speak seven languages and had converted from Christianity before heading emni.
He said: “They live 24 hours per day with a mask. They are chosen specially for this.
“They have their own houses, special families. They have been chosen specially, and many were sent back to Europe.”
He added: “They are processed by surgery, training and language and they send them as sleeping cells. In Turkey they give them hair transplants, surgically change their eyes, even the eye colour.”
ISIS terror chiefs would falsely announce on social media that its henchmen had been killed fighting in Syria before dispatching them on death missions to Europe.
It would then be revealed they had mounted a terror attack in Paris or Brussels, Kadr claimed.
Kadr claimed he travelled to Syria with a German called Dominic who had been sent back to Europe.
He said: “ISIS said he [Dominic] was killed, but it wasn’t true.
“He lived next to me and when I went to see his wife and children inside the ISIS area in Tabqa, near Raqqa, they told me, ‘He is not killed, but we don’t know where he is’.
“He’s alive somewhere. Up to now, there is no communiqué [about his actions in Europe].”