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| Italy Fears ISIS Invasion From Libya |
| 2015-02-18 |
| "We will conquer Rome" is a pretty direct warning. It'll be at least a month before they convince themselves there's nothing to worry about. [THEDAILYBEAST] Last weekend in Italia, as the threat of ISIS in Libya hit home with a new video addressed to "the nation signed with the blood of the cross" and the warning, "we are south of Rome," Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi shuttered up the Italian embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and raised his fist with the threat of impending military action. Never mind that Italia has only 5,000 troops available that are even close to deployable, according to the defense ministry. Or that the military budget was cut by 40 percent two years ago, which has kept the acquisition of 90 F-35 fighter jets hanging in the balance and left the country combat-challenged to lead any mission--especially one against an enemy like the 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.... n fact, Renzi didn't specify exactly who would wield that military might, and, two days later, when no one volunteered to lead the charge, he backtracked. "It's not the time for a military intervention," Renzi told an Italian television station Monday night and said the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... had to lead the way. "Our proposal is to wait for the UN Security Council. The strength of the UN is decidedly superior to that of the radical militias." Whether the time is right or not, there is no question that there is a palpable tension in Italia over the ISIS threat--Libya is just 109 miles away from the island of Lampedusa and 300 miles from Sicily--made worse by a 64 percent increase in illegal migrant arrivals by sea since last year. In all of 2014, more than 170,000 people arrived from Libya and Turkey, the highest number ever recorded. Last weekend, as the embassy staff made their way to Italia on a mercantile ship, 2,164 migrants left the same Libyan shores en route to Sicily. The week before, more than 300 people were lost in the same seas as their rickety fishing boats capsized before rescuers could save them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Sorry Italy, you have already been overrun, skip teaching your kids Italian and start teaching them Arabic, believe me you will be doing them a favor... Chao! err, I mean Salaam ! |
| Posted by: Flusoque Hupusosing1667 2015-02-18 22:44 |
| #14 The OWG Globalists are unilaterally forcing change to the post-1945, post-Cold War + 9-11 World Order includ long-standing Balances of Power-n-Terror, and are NOT taking "No" for an answer ... SO ALSO IS RADICAL ISLAM = ISIS/ISIL + ALIGNED. [THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA = VILENT DEATH OF ROMAN POPE here]. Once again, the US-West/Allies must either destroy the ISIS/ISIL NOW, or else face an Osama, AQ, + ISIS-inspired Islamic Mahdi/Messiah/Hidden Imam 2030-2050, as backed up by WESTERN-HELPED, WESTERN-APPROVED NUCLEAR ISLAM. Angry Allan-loving Camelkazies wid ICBMS + Assorted WMDS-CBRN(E)S. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-18 21:39 |
| #13 Repeat of the SIEGE OF SYRACUSE/MALTA??? Crete? Sardinia? In any case, ITALIA = PHILIPPINES = BATTLE FOR STRATEGIC/DISPUTED ISLANDS = US will desire its Cash-strapped NATO ally to review-n-implement long-needed MILPOLECON, etc. National Reforms. Not exactly CHINA + South China Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan, + WESTPAC, but close enuff to affect the Biscotti. What affects ITALY also ultimately affects GREECE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-18 21:25 |
| #12 left off Christopher Walken. True Romance is a Classic |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-02-18 21:18 |
| #11 #8 #7 Sicily was once part of the Islamic conquest. And before that it was contested for centuries between the Greeks and the Carthaginians. BTW, Carthago delenda est. |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-02-18 20:45 |
| #10 Hey paisano, is it time to surrender yet? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-02-18 19:47 |
| #9 Italy repor may deploy up to 4,800 of those 5000 troops agz the ISIS, which doesn't leave much in case of contingency or need elsewhere. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-18 19:37 |
| #8 #7 Sicily was once part of the Islamic conquest. See the Dennis Hopper/Christopher scene in True Romance. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-02-18 19:13 |
| #7 Sicily was once part of the Islamic conquest. Well, until the Normans (yep, the people setting up house in London and forcing the local Anglo-Saxons to add some Latin words to their vocabulary) decided to open a 'southern office' in the Med. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-18 17:42 |
| #6 Excellent, thanks Bubba and TW. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-18 14:53 |
| #5 Hah! It worked! Many thanks to Bubba Graiting8281 for his advice given 5/9/2014. Key bit: 2) < img src ="http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/nigeria/boko_haram_map.jpg" width = "400" / > Remove the space after the < and the space just before the > and you mage will show after copying the above line of HTML code into your comment. Must be the url to an online image. It will look like this below. img src width are the three key words to an HTML image tag. src width you supply corresponding values to. The < and /> are the beginning and ending image tag symbols. Option 2. Clicking the first from right symbol at the bottom of the Rantburg comment box brings up field where you just enter an image URL address http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/nigeria/boko_haram_map.jpg and Rantburg creates the image tag for you behind the scenes within your comment. Click Preview in your comment box to see if it works before clicking Submit. Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-09 09:42 |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-02-18 12:31 |
| #4 I humbly ask a favor gawd-modders, my image she is blowed up gone. Can you intervene on my behalf? ^^^ that |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-18 11:57 |
| #3 Don't even think about it. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-18 11:55 |
| #2 ...Oh yeah, let's see what happens when a bunch of ISIS tries to take down Sicily. And they REALLY don't want to annoy a bunch of tests Calabrese. Those are my people...it won't be pretty. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-02-18 07:47 |
| #1 "Miss me now?" Muammar Qaddafi. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-18 03:01 |