Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots From Afar New York Times, by Rukmini Callimachi HYDERABAD, India – When the Islamic State identified a promising young recruit willing to carry out an attack in one of India’s major tech hubs, the group made sure to arrange everything down to the bullets he needed to kill victims. For 17 months, terrorist operatives guided the recruit, a young engineer named Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani, through every step of what they planned to be the Islamic State’s first strike on Indian soil.