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Iceland police arrest four in ‘first-ever’ suspected terror plot UPDATE: neo-Nazis not jihadis
2022-09-23
[IsraelTimes] Police probing possible links to foreign forces of Evil after large-scale operation, say targets may have included parliament of small nation considered among world’s most peaceful.

Icelandic police said Thursday they had arrested four people in a large-scale operation linked to preparations of a "terrorist attack," thought to be the first-ever such arrests in the small Nordic island nation.

Speaking at a presser, police said several semi-automatic weapons, including 3D-printed ones, had been seized at nine different locations, as well as "thousands" of rounds of ammunition.

"The origin of the police operations yesterday... was in the context of an investigation into the preparation of a terrorist attack," Karl Steinar Valsson, National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, told news hounds.

Four Icelanders in their 20s
..it’s not clear from this if they were named Sven or Mohammed...
were arrested in Kopavogur, a suburb of the capital Reykjavik, and the southwestern town of Mosfellsbaer in a large-scale operation on Wednesday involving some 50 men, police said.

Two of them had been ordered held in jug on Thursday.

While potential motives were unknown, the targets are believed to be "various institutions of society" and "citizens of the state," according to Valsson, possibly including the parliament and the police itself.

Police also said they were looking into where there were links between the men and Death Eater organizations and that they were in contact with foreign authorities.

"As far as we know, this is the first time that an investigation of this type has been launched [in Iceland]," Valsson said.

The small nation of 375,000 people has topped the Global Peace Index since it was included in the ranking in 2008 and is considered the "most peaceful country in the world."

Violence is rare, evidenced by one of the lowest crime rates in the world, although a surge in violent mostly peaceful crime in recent years has worried the authorities.
Update from the Guardian at 12:30 p.m. ET:
Local media reported that officers were exploring potential links to Nordic far-right groups and that the police were the central target.

One group that has been on the police radar in Iceland in recent years is the neo-Nazi organisation known as Norðurvígi, or the Nordic Resistance Movement.

The organisation has gained a foothold in Iceland and has an active website and has distributed pamphlets on the University of Iceland’s campus, among other sites.

The latest report of the Office of the Commissioner of the National Police on the threat of terrorism in Iceland, published last year, cited the pan-Nordic group as a threat.

“It is clear that the Nordic Resistance Movement falls under the groups of right-wing extremists that Norwegians and Swedes consider to be a cause for concern,” the report said.
Not jihadis, so moved to Page 3: Non-WoT.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The West trained the neo-nazis in ukr like the jiahadis in the ME.

So did Russia, oddly enough alongside pro-Russia Ukrainian separatists. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Russian Imperial Movementers, and all the similar et ceteras from Europe and beyond have been meeting up for regular courses in St. Petersburg as well as on-line courses, supposedly offered by the FSB with government approval. Deutsche Welle had an article about it. So have many other news outlets, and the FBI has been following the connection with great excitement.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-09-23 22:56  

#2  Angry psyco-kids.
Kill'em as a lesson to the rest of the pretenders.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-23 15:34  

#1  This is why the globalist colony of UKR needs regime change. I am in the camp that all things globalist need to be destroyed.

The West trained the neo-nazis in ukr like the jiahadis in the ME. Like I said before, you can link various neo-nazi movements the world over with the neo-nazi training camps in ukr.

Nordic Resistance Movement is no different and can be linked to Azov. This is insidious. UKR Neo-nazis were in Charlottesville and Jan 6. The globalists are going to frame and associate all right wing groups that oppose their woke green-eco global communism with domestic neo-nazis that have been trained in ukr and who brought that knowledge home.
Posted by: mossomo   2022-09-23 12:51  

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