Intelligence inputs also indicated the ISIS has stepped up efforts to infiltrate operatives into Britain to launch attacks there, another official said. The duo set out from Raqqa in Syria, the capital of the IS “caliphate”, six weeks before the Paris attacks. As a result, they could not become part of the Paris attacks. The men arrived in Salzburg, Austria, on November 14, the day after the Paris attacks, and applied for asylum. After Haddadi and Usman failed to participate in the Paris attacks, were planning another strike in Europe, investigators concluded.

Source: Hindustan Times September 05, 2016 13:41 UTC