2024-05-09
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Intelligence agencies across the West were aghast.
It was the clearest warning that Islamic State or IS,
seemingly smashed five years ago,
is returning to spectacular acts of international terrorism.
Western countries fear becoming targets.
The Dread is deepest in France and Germany,
which are hosting two of the world's biggest sporting events this summer,
the Olympic Games and the Euro 2024 Football Championship.
The floating ceremony along the Seine to open the Paris Olympics has been curtailed to limit the risk.
A Plan B is in the works too.
If you can do Moscow, you can do Paris, explains Gilles Capel, an expert on jihadism.