[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Isil fighters who have been routed from their former stronghold of Sirte in Libya could try to enter Europe by hiding among Precisely who in Italia?
Hundreds of 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters are fleeing Sirte after coming under sustained assault by Libyan ground forces and air strikes by US fighter jets and drones.
Yep. Gettin' the M.C. Hammer pants beat off 'em.
There is now a much greater risk that some turbans could attempt to pass themselves off as
If they were successful in reaching Italia, the Isil members could plan attacks on targets in Europe.
They could plan them, perhaps, but there are a number of facts mitigating against success.
1. If they're departing in a flotilla of boats, probably with human shields, the flotilla of boats could be sunk by the Mighty Italiano Navy, too bad about the human shields.
2. If they leave in small groups they can be sunk in small groups easier than if they were in big groups.
3. If they leave one boat at a time the majority of the bastards will be wiped out covering the departure of the Big Turbans, who're never the last to leave.
4. Those not sunk can be arrested when they land. Modern nations have surveillance aircraft to track that sort of thing.
5. You don't lug tanks and heavy weapons with you when you're fleeing for your life, especially in oversized rubber rafts They'll have to start over from scratch in the terrorism business.
I could probably come up with more points, but I'm not thinking real hard on the subject. You could probably ask any survivors of the Dunkirk evacuations how much they took with them and how many boats were required.
| The thing is, the Europeans have been sending naval ships out into the Mediterranean Sea to rescue foundering migrant boats... and bringing the migrants to refugee centers in Europe, rather than taking them back to their starting point. They aren't going to start sinking boats now, nor returning them to North Africa, no matter how certain it might be that the people in them are very bad, indeed. |