Isil's security advice to would-be jihadists: Shave your beard, encrypt your phones and wear western clothes

Islamic State has issued an advice booklet for followers who want to carry out “lone wolf” attacks of the sort that are plaguing European countries.The booklet, “Safety and security guidelines for lone wolf mujahideen and small cells”, tells readers how to “surprise the enemy” by evading security agencies.“Any operation that doesn’t have a strong security and precaution base is deemed to fail, just like a big building needs strong foundations,” it says. “Security precautions are the foundations of any operation.” The booklet was originally written in Arabic for al-Qaeda, and followed other advice documents for jihadists such as the famous "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom". But it has now been translated and re-released in English by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which split off from al-Qaeda in 2014.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12096095/isil-security-jihadist-advice.html


I did say before that to avoid detection ISIS jihadis or even Al-Qaeda before them will do anything to avoid bringing attention to themselves by blending in within western society. Of course this all could be a ruse to just confuse security services but to me unlikely when it makes more sense to blend in.