[Breitbart] Italian security forces have deported an Islamist Moroccan national who had expressed his intentions to carry out a terror attack in the Vatican.
In prison for common crimes, the 32-year-old Moroccan had "confided his plan for the attack to a cellmate," Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano reported Tuesday. The plot included the use of "a car bomb as well as Kalashnikov rifles," which the man claimed he could procure in Rome through a contact there.
The jihadist has been described by those who knew him as "fanatical" and eager to "die in God's name to win Paradise."
"Today we made another deportation on national security grounds, marking the tempo of tireless prevention activities that we consider a pillar in combating violent extremism," Alfano told reporters.
Italy's counterterrorism efforts have indeed been remarkably successful and have been held up as a model for other countries to follow. Last year, a leading military analyst observed that it was no accident that despite the many factors going against Italy, Islamic terrorists have failed to kill a single person on Italian soil. |