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Isis recruiters 'called on homegrown jihadists to carry out lone wolf attacks on VJ Day'

The terror group said they were planning an attack on the Queen during the VJ Day commemorations

Caroline Mortimer
Tuesday 11 August 2015 15:33 BST
Isis have urged the converters to stage attacks in their home countries and provide advice via social media channels
Isis have urged the converters to stage attacks in their home countries and provide advice via social media channels (Getty Images)

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Isis fighters are being urged not to go to the so-called caliphate and instead remain in Britain to carry out “lone wolf” attacks - amid claims this weekend's VJ commemorations involving the Queen were a target.

Fictitious online profiles created by Sky News made contact with jihadist recruiters who sent them terror guidebooks from Syria, including advice on raising funds and making weapons.

The undercover journalists were told that Isis already had a number of potential bombers in the UK, some of whom had been trained in Syria .

Sky claims that one of the potential targets is the VJ celebrations in London on Saturday.

In one exchange the journalist - pretending to be an 18-year-old girl - is asked if she wants to cut off a head or make a bomb.

The jihadi then said she would talk the fictional girl through how to make a bomb, including where to get the materials and how to put it together.

During conversations on Twitter and in chatrooms, one jihadist said that they were targeting the Queen and the royal family at the VJ commemorations.

The Mail on Sunday revealed that MI5 and police were racing against time to thwart the VJ day assassination plot which is believed to be being orchestrated from Syria.

The Queen, Prince Charles, David Cameron, various dignitaries and more than 1,000 veterans of the Far East campaign and their families will be in attendance at the event in Westminster Abbey.

The jihadists also said they had a would be bomber in Scotland and two others who had so far failed to act.

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