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Italy arrests Tunisian suspected of trying to fight in Syria
2015-04-23
[Ynet] Italian police said Wednesday they have detained a 27-year-old Tunisian resident suspected of preparing to join 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Syria.

Italia's anti-terrorism police said that they detained the suspect, identified as Louati Noussair, 27, in Ravenna as he was preparing to leave for Germany en route to Syria. A previous attempt to reach Syria by flying to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
failed due to problems with his passport.

Police said he had made contact over Facebook with a Paleostinian fighter to organize the journey, and that he planned to raise travel money by selling drugs. Noussair, who has been living in Ravenna, is married to an Italian woman but police say she apparently was unaware of his plans.
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