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Five arrested over 'European Isil cell' that ran 'Islam in Spanish' Facebook page
[Telegraph] Spanish, German and Belgian authorities have incarcerated... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... five people suspected of forming an "active and dangerous" Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (Isil) cell and promoting Islamist militancy in the three countries, Spain's interior ministry said on Wednesday. Four were Spanish and one was Moroccan, it said. Two were detained in Barcelona, one in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla, one in Brussels and one in Wuppertal, Germany. Spanish police worked in conjunction with German and Belgium federal law enforcers in the arrests, the ministry said. The group used social media, specifically a Facebook page "Islam en Español" (Islam in Spanish), which had over 32,000 followers, to glorify Isil and spread the message of the bully boy group that operates out of Syria and Iraq, the ministry said. Operating almost exclusively in Spanish, they are accused of commissioning attacks, radicalisation, promoting Islamist militancy and acting as go-betweens for the group in Europe. Since Spain raised its alert level to 4, the second highest, in 2015, its police have arrested 143 Islamist bully boys, with 113 in Spain and 30 outside of the country. Some 34 people have been arrested this year in relation to Islamist militancy, according to government figures. The Spanish interior ministry said the cell, made up of four Spaniards and one Moroccan, posed "a grave, concrete and continued threat to security in Europe". The ministry said the cell directed its activities toward young Moslems of northwest African background. Officials said 113 suspected pro-jihad activists have been arrested in Spain since 2015 while Spanish police had helped arrest 30 more in other countries. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's anti-terrorism coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove, said the new arrests show just how much intelligence-sharing is improving. "The security services and the law-enforcement agencies are sharing much more information than they were before," he said, on the sidelines of a conference on countering extremism by the Club de Madrid think tank in Brussels. "It's impressive to see the number of plots which have been foiled in recent weeks, the number of people who have been arrested." In Germany, the state interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia released a statement saying police had detained a 20-year-old Spanish citizen with Moroccan ancestry who "allegedly spread videos with cruelties on social media mostly in Spain." It said police also confiscated hard drives, laptops and mobile phones. US imposes sanctions on Italian rapper for fighting with ISIS [Ynet] The B.O. regime has imposed sanctions on an Italian rapper who moved to Syria to join ISIS. Anas el-Abboubi was added on Wednesday to the State Department's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The department says el-Abboubi -- who's known in Italia as Mc Khalif -- was taken into police custody in Italia in 2013 for plotting an attack in northern Italia and recruiting individuals for krazed killer activity in Syria. He was released after two weeks in jug and later fled to Syria. The department says he's among about 50 imported muscle of Italian origin currently fighting in Syria. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-09-29 |
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