ISIS recruits in SE Asia a rising threat despite weak attacks
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JAKARTA- Ineffectual attacks by ISIS's followers in Southeast Asia have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in the expertise that has produced devastating death tolls elsewhere in the world.
But terrorism experts say the threat from the militants, spread across predominantly Muslim Indonesia, Malaysia and the southern Philippines, should not be underestimated and they could be transformed into a more dangerous force by training and leadership.
There are plenty of signs radicals in the region have been animated by ISIS leader Abu Bakar al Baghdadi's call for attacks and the group's ambition to create Southeast Asian provinces of the ISIS caliphate even as it loses territory in Syria and Iraq.
