British politicians also named in list.
AB Wire
The Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin, who has Indian and Pakistani roots, along with Muslim-American U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) has been put on the hit list for assassination by ISIS.
Abedin and Ellison have been termed as “crusaders†in an article by ISIS’ in-house magazine Dabiq, reported The Daily Beast.
“[O]ne must not overlook the overt crusaders, those who don’t even wear the cloak of da’wah [preaching Islam], but instead directly involve themselves in politics and enforcing the laws of kufr,†according to the magazine.
André Carson (D-IN), the only other Muslim-American elected to Congress, was not named on the list, which also included Department of Homeland Security officials, British politicians, “and other politically active apostates.†British politicians Sayeeda Warsi and Sajid Javid are also on the hit list.
Abedin, the wife of former US House Rep. Anthony Weiner, and other targets are branded “overt crusaders†and “politically active apostates,†who “involve themselves in the politics and enforcing laws of the kufr [disbelievers].â€
Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin told The New York Post he had no comment about ISIS’ hit list.
Also in the 14th edition of the magazine, ISIS celebrates the Brussels bombings and identifies the key jihadists behind the terror.
“Paris was a warning. Brussels was a reminder,†the magazine said in a threat of more violence. “What is yet to come will be more devastating and more bitter by the permission of Allah, and Allah prevails.â€
Brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who blew themselves up in the attacks on the Belgian capital, were responsible for “all preparations for the raids in Paris and Brussels,†the English-language magazine reported, for the first time referring to the jihadis by name.
Khalid, 27, and Ibrahim, 29, were convicted carjackers and bank robbers who had spent time in a Belgian prison, where they joined the ISIS cause, the magazine said.
Dabiq described Khalid as a “man of strong character, a natural leader†who had three visions. In his first vision, which he reportedly had while locked up, he claimed he saw the Prophet riding on a horse in battle, the Post reported.
“The vision took me beyond the battlefield. I saw myself as an archer shooting arrows at the enemy. I would shoot, take cover, then shoot again,†he said.
After being released, the magazine said, he began amassing a cache of weapons and explosives.
The magazine also described Najim Laachraoui, 24, a Belgian of Moroccan descent who blew himself up at the Brussels airport, as the bomb maker for both the Paris and Brussels attacks.