[Al Ahram] Italia raised its terror alert level on Friday after deadly attacks in La Belle France, Tunisia and Kuwait. "No country is without risk, we have raised the level of alert to re-sensitise those units charged with protecting sensitive places," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said.
"Today has seen three attacks with dozens of dead carried out in three different places around the world, linked by one thing: violence and terror," he said.
Italia had raised its alert level to the third-highest in January, after the jihadist attacks in Gay Paree.
Alfano did not specify to what grade he had increased the level on Friday, after a massacre at a beach resort across the Mediterranean in Tunisia and a grisly Islamist attack in southeast La Belle France.
At least 37 people were killed and 36 maimed when a gunman opened fire on holidaymakers on a beach in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse.
Meanwhile in La Belle France, a businessman was found decapitated with Arabic inscriptions on his body at a gas factory near Lyon, while further afield in Kuwait, a suicide kaboom at a mosque claimed by 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....
jihadists killed 25.
Alfano shot down claims that would-be jihadists may be entering Italia via migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from Libya, hidden among the over 60,000 people who have washed up on the country's shores so far this year.
"We will win the terror challenge only if we do not allow ourselves to be conditioned by fear," he said, adding that "there is no proof that there has been a rise in crime as a consequence of the rise in immigration".
Earlier Friday, a Pak accused of organising a 2009 kaboom on a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
market that killed more than 130 people was detained in Italia.
Italian anti-terrorism detectives believe the man to be part of a jihadist network based in Italia, which was plotting terror attacks on Rome and possibly the Vatican to be carried by jacket wallahs from Pakistain.