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Islamic State ‘brand’ spreading worldwide: experts

– ‘Seeking new identity’ –

That is why in Afghanistan and Pakistan groups claiming to be IS have appeared in recent months, claiming attacks or posing on the Internet with the group’s black flag.

“There are breakaway local militant groups seeking a new identity who are joining IS,” Pakistan-based analyst Hasan Askari said.

“The IS ideology already exists in Pakistan, it is an extreme Salafi tradition and people are now following them for a new identity, (even though) they might not have direct links with the real IS leadership,” he said, referencing a strict form of Islam.

He said there was no evidence to suggest that the IS leadership had visited the groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which are both strongholds of Al-Qaeda.

Amedy Coulibaly, the French jihadist who killed four Jews in a kosher supermarket in Paris in January 2015, pledged allegiance to IS, but the investigation has so far found no evidence that he had ever been in contact with the organisation, apart from viewing its propaganda videos on the Internet.

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