ISIL vows to launch more attacks on Bangladesh

The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group has vowed to launch further terror attacks on Bangladesh, almost a week after it claimed that it carried out a deadly siege in the capital Dhaka, which killed 20 people.

In a new video, purportedly put on the Internet by the group on Wednesday, three Bangla-speaking men first praised the terrorist acts of the six men who conducted the deadly attack on the Gulshan café in the capital on Friday night. They had killed 18 foreigners and two police officers before they themselves being shot dead by security forces.

“We will not stop killing the crusaders till then; we will win or die... we don't have anything to lose,” said one of the men in the footage.

Addressing the “Christian and Jewish crusaders and their allies,” another man switched in English and said “what you witnessed in Bangladesh was just a glimpse, this will repeat, repeat and repeat until you lose and we win.”

The bloody hostage taking ended on Saturday, after 12 hours, when commandos killed the gunmen and took another alive. Officials said most of the victims were slaughtered with machete-style weapons.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina decreed two days of national mourning beginning on Sunday. Services were held across the country in memory of the victims.

Hasina said the attacks were meant to tarnish the image of Islam and Bangladesh as an Islamic country.

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