Internal ISIS Communications Reveal Plan to Threaten to Bomb Saudi Cinema

Saudi men take the escalator during a cinema test screening in Riyadh on April 18, 2018. The terrorist group ISIS has discussed on private communications about threatening the theater. Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images

A recent spike in internal communications of the ISIS terrorist group, using social media platforms, allegedly includes a planned threat to bomb a new, co-ed movie theater in Saudi Arabia.

An anonymous user on an internal ISIS chat network, translated from Arabic, stated on April 22 that for Muslims near the cinema in the Arabian Peninsula, it “is necessary to issue a threat to blow it up because of proximity to it and Muslims are quick to remind you.”