ISIS seeking to poison food supplies by lacing jars of spices with the CYANIDE POISON

ISLAMIC State jihadists are seeking to poison food supplies by lacing jars of spices with the poison cyanide.

 

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Indonesia is on high alert

 

Indonesia is on high alert after a senior government official revealed the terror group was planning to put the highly toxic substance in jars of chilli.

Luhut Pandjaitan, minister for political, legal and security affairs, said: "ISIS is now using cyanide to terrorise. They are using cyanide to poison food.

"We have considered various forms of threats and we are prepared to face such a possibility [of cyanide poisoning]."

Cyanide can also be used to poison the water supply, potentially posing an even greater risk to public health.

Militants are believed to have been inspired by a recent murder in Indonesia involving a coffee laced with cyanide.

ISIS has been linked to cyanide in the past, including in 2014 when the nascent group allegedly took a large quantity of sodium cyanide from a town in Iraq.

Fresh threats from the barbaric Islamist group comes after the Indonesian capital Jakarta was rocked by terror attacks in January.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the spree of bombs and shootings in a mid-morning rampage that left seven people dead.

GETTY:Police patrolling after the Jakarta bombing

 

Authorities in Muslim-majority Indonesia have struggled to cope with rising Islamic extremism, and the country's religious leaders continue to spark international outage over their radical stance on human rights issues.

The country's most influential Muslim leaders said earlier today that they rejected all promotion and support for lesbian and gay groups and encouraged the government to make gay sexual activity illegal.

Most of Indonesian society is tolerant, with gay and transsexual entertainers often appearing on television, but Muslim groups remain fervently against promoting equality.

source:express.co.uk

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