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Italy Arrests Two Suspected of Planning IS-Style Attacks
2015-07-23
[AnNahar] Italian police locked away
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
two men Wednesday suspected of supporting 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 and plotting to carrying out attacks in the country.

The Tunisian and Pak had opened a Twitter account on which they posted threatening messages written by hand and held up in front of historic Italian monuments, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Duomo in Milan.

"We are in your streets, we are everywhere. We identify our targets while we wait for zero hour", said one message, written in Italian, French and Arabic.

Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli said, however, that the sites in question "were never in danger" because the pair, based in Brescia in northern Italia, had not set their plans in motion.

"The two men were referring to several targets, particularly the Ghedi military base" near Brescia, "but also other possible targets including law enforcement forces," he said at a presser.

The two men had also downloaded from the Internet a manual on bomb-making and how to disguise their identities online, he said.
That clearly worked really well.
"This morning's arrests show our system to prevent terrorist attacks works. It confirms that Internet controls allow us to take preventative action with great efficiency," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said.
Ynet points out that the Tunisian has achieved the great age of 35, much too old for this to count as a childish prank.
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