A confidential report issued by a major intelligence agency brings to light a new form of terrorist threat being considered by Daesh.
According to this report, the organisation led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi aims to carry out chemical attacks targeting transport networks in major Western cities.
Defeated in its former bastions in Iraq and Syria, Daesh is looking to avenge itself by instructing chemist students to develop of a new type of attack using thin layers of cyanide paste, capable of being glued to the armrests of aeroplane seats, to the passenger hang straps in buses or to the handrails found in underground trains, in order to poison travellers.
This threat is taken all the more seriously in that Daesh has already experimented with similar methods pasted to the door handles of military vehicles in Iraq.