ISIS is encouraging jihadists to use websites like Craigslist and eBay to lure victims to their property to take them hostage and kill them.  

A recent edition of the Islamic State magazine, Rumiyah, has published tutorials on vehicle, knife and arson attacks for lone jihadists, who it praised as having 'set heroic examples with their operations'.  The magazine, which is published online in ten languages, encourages terrorists to buy guns at shows and to 'create as much carnage and terror as one possible (sic) can' when taking hostages.  

Meanwhile, ISIS is also creating a social media site where fanatics will be able to recruit others and share extremist material, a top EU official has said.  The magazine article says that the objective of taking hostages is 'not to hold large numbers of the kuffar hostage in order to negotiate one's demands'.  Instead, it says to create terror with 'the language of force, the language of killing, stabbing and slitting throats, chopping off heads, flattening them under trucks, and burning them alive, until they give the jizyah [tax] while they are in a state of humiliation', according to PJ Media.

The magazine suggested that terrorists take people hostage at malls, movie theaters, night clubs, ice-skating rinks, restaurants and college campuses.  But they were also encouraged to lure hostages through online advertisements on Craigslist, Gumtree, eBay and Loot.  One suggested lure was to advertise a studio apartment for rent, small enough not to 'attract large families', and trap and kill interested renters.

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