Paris attacks 2015: Anonymous declares “total war” on Islamic State in chilling video
Anonymous has declared “total war” on the Islamic State (IS), following the terror attacks in Paris that left 132 dead and hundreds more injured.
The group have announced their "biggest operation ever", first on Twitter, where Anonymous announced that they’re “also better hackers” than IS.
https://twitter.com/GroupAnon/status/665956057005559808
The announcement was followed up by a Youtube video where an anonymous presenter in a Guy Fawkes mask spoke in French, addressing IS directly:
You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go. We will launch the biggest operation ever against you.
The video has already been seen nearly 2.5m times.
Anonymous’ announcement comes as French President Francois Hollande declared that France “is at war” when addressing the country’s parliament earlier today. Outlining his intentions to step up his efforts against IS, together with the EU, the US and Russia, Hollande said:
They fight us because we're the homeland of human rights. This is not a war of civilisations, because those terrorists don't represent any civilisation.
The infamous hacker group Anonymous has a long history of attacking the Islamic State, successfully flagging some 101,000 Twitter accounts linked to IS and taking down 149 IS-linked websites, according to Foreign Policy magazine.