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Italy Arrests Syrian IS Suspect Off Refugee Boat
2015-12-15
[AnNahar] Italian police have tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a Syrian on suspicion of being a member of the so-called 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS), clapping him in cuffs shortly after he arrived by boat along with hundreds of refugees, media reports said Monday.

The man, reportedly in his 20s, was arrested by officers in Sicily after Italia's special operations division discovered incriminating material on his mobile phone.

The suspect had videos and photographs which appeared to be of IS attacks along with a text message which read "Allah is great, but ISIS is even better", according to the reports.

The local Corriere di Ragusa daily said the images contained "corpses, wounds and lots of blood."

The Syrian arrived on December 4 on a wooden fishing boat carrying 500 people, and had been staying at the reception center in the southeastern Sicilian port before his arrest.
If there is one in this 500, and nearly a million have come thus far this year, ...500 into 1,000,000 is like 5 into 10,000 or... about 2,000 jihadis and jihad fanboys. Let's be generous and assume that not all of them will actually act on their admiration, or will get caught at the planning stage. How many Parises would be successfully executed?
There have long been concerns in Italia and Europe of would-be jihadists entering the country and the rest of the continent on the rickety boats of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from northern Africa.

At least one of the men involved in the Gay Paree attacks last month, which left 130 people dead, is believed to have traveled through Italia on his way to La Belle France.
Q.E.D.
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano praised police, describing the arrest as "proof of the prevention system's efficiency."
That's,certainly one way to describe it.
"Our work never stops, night nor day. We are on the ground with our best investigative teams and our best men."
I don't doubt it. How much sleep do your people get?
Since the Gay Paree attacks, which were claimed by IS, there have been reports of a drop in the number of people attending crowded events or places in Italia -- from Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican to shopping centers.

Rome's Prefect Franco Gabrielli said it was necessary to "beat the fear which is gripping the city and the country in the fatalistic anticipation that something will happen."
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  clapping him in cuffs shortly after he arrived by boat along with hundreds of refugees
Aren't they all suspects?
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-12-15 10:47  

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