Evidence of a "jihadi technical college" in Syria has shocked security experts with the complexity of training its recruits are receiving.
Some of the skills ISIS terrorists in Raqqa are learning include building remote-control vehicles and producing homemade thermal batteries for surface-to-air missiles. Sunni radicals also have the ability to engineer self-regulating thermostats that produce human-like heat signatures.
Chris Hunter, a former bomb technician in the special forces and adviser to the British military, told Sky News on Wednesday that its investigative report into the terrorist organization has produced a "significant intelligence find."
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"With this training footage, it's very clearly designed to pass on information – to pass on the progress in the research and development areas – and it gives us a very good insight into where they are now, what they're aspiring to do and crucially the diversity of the types of threats we might face. I would say it's an intelligence gold mine."
The network said it was able to identify terrorists from Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan and Somalia during its investigation. The video was passed on to Sky News by remnants of the Free Syrian Army after it captured a terrorist trying to pass into Turkey.
A defector who spoke with reporters said the video was not meant for audiences inside Syria and Iraq. The goal is to provide technical expertise to Muslim radicals who are willing to carry out attacks like those in Paris, France, on Nov. 13, 2015, that killed 129 and wounded more than 350 others.
Hunter told Sky News that ISIS' ability to create human-like heat signatures shows the group should not be underestimated.
"They've really thought about the tactics of the different security forces," Hunter said. "They second-guess the potential courses of action those security forces might take. ... It's very clever what they've done."
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