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ISIS' Latest Ploy: Booby-trapped Korans

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- A U.S. army officer based in Baghdad says ISIS latest ploy -- booby-trapping Islam's holy book -- is evidence the terror group is on the defensive.

"These guys are disgusting," Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the coalition, said at the Foreign Office in London, The Daily Star reported. "They have left bombs in refrigerators; they have put bombs in toilets; they have put bombs inside the holy [sic] Koran."

"We believe that Daesh [Arabic term for the Islamic State] is now beginning to lose," he said.

Warren said the slowdown in the flow of international volunteers has prompted an increase in "forced conscription," forcing increasing numbers of children to become soldiers.

"They have been able to replenish their forces at roughly the same rate as we've been able to kill their forces," he said. "We see them in a defensive crouch."

There's increasing evidence, he says, that ISIS is struggling to maintain its control, which may very well prompt high visibility reprisals by its European cells. That could translate to an attack in the United Kingdom like those carried out in Paris and San Bernardino.

But Warren says any such attack "should not be considered a sign of strength," but rather "exactly the opposite."

"We view it as a sign that because of the pressure that has been placed on them, because they are beginning to stumble a little bit, they are trying to either distract or prove they are not finished yet," he said.

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