ISIS Defector Describes Group's Interest in Western Attacks: Report

 

A German man jailed after joining and later fleeing the terror group ISIS in Syria said an organizer for the group was more focused on planning terror attacks in European cities than his joining the battle in Syria.

Harry Sarfo, from Bremen, Germany, told the New York Times in an interview at a maximum security German prison where he is being held that the ISIS organizer asked him for contacts back home and said the group particularly wanted attackers in Germany.

"He was speaking openly about the situation, saying that they have loads of people living in European countries and waiting for commands to attack the European people," Sarfo told the newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. "And that was before the Brussels attacks, before the Paris attacks," Sarfo said.

The Times described an intelligence unit of ISIS called Emni in Arabic, whose role is to encourage attacks in countries outside Syria and Iraq. 

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Source: NBC News