ISIS
plans to invade Europe through Libya – report
ISIS’ plans to conquer Europe via Libya have been revealed in letters seen by an anti-terrorism group. Owing to its perfect location on the continental doorstep, the terrorists plan to ferry fighters from North Africa across the Mediterranean.
RT,
18
February, 2015
The
plans, analyzed by anti-terrorism British think tank Quilliam,
outline a strategy to illegally ferry fighters across the sea from
Libya into southern Europe, into ports such as Italy’s southernmost
island of Lampedusa, less than 300 miles (483km) away.
Libya “has
a long coast and looks upon the southern Crusader states, which can
be reached with ease by even a rudimentary boat,” an
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) propagandist says in the
letters seen by Quilliam, according to the Telegraph.
That
information originates from an IS supporter using the moniker Abu
Ibrahim al-Libim. The propagandist is believed to be a strong force
in IS recruitment online, with a focus on Libya.
The
Telegraph could not independently confirm his identity, but the
online recruiter is believed by analysts to be a great inspirer of
troops and is widely-read.
"Twitter
has shut down Libim's accounts several times and each time he starts
a new one he gets thousands of followers very quickly, which is
typical of an influential [IS] affiliate," Charlie
Winter, researcher for the Quilliam Foundation, told the
newspaper.
The
plans Libim reveals revolve around posing as illegal immigrants, to
then start an all-out attack on southern Europe by seeding chaos and
bloodshed. The terrorists reportedly hope to flood Libya with other
fighters from Syria and Iraq, with a whole army at the ready to
invade.
"We
will conquer Rome, by Allah's permission,” he
says in a Sunday video depicting the beheading of 21 Egyptian
Christian guest workers, the video that led to Egypt organizing a
bombing campaign on militant positions in Libya. He also describes
the country as having “immense
potential” for
the terrorist group, while making references to the spoils of war
left after the ouster of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 – tons of
weapons, ammunition and oil.
Libim
continues to explain how illegal immigration across into Italy
is “huge in number” and
that “if this was even
partially exploited and developed strategically, pandemonium could be
wrought in the southern European states and it is even possible that
there could be a closure of shipping lines and targeting of Crusader
ships and tankers.”
The
video and the letters come shortly after renewed calls in the West to
do something about Libya’s security problem. President Obama’s
strategy, for one, depended heavily on a president forced to step
down recently. Now, the country’s security is at an all-time low,
and the various factions and jihadist groups vying for control of the
oil-rich state have plans to remake Europe in that image.
And
owing to Libya’s vast desert swaths and porous borders with
sub-Saharan Africa, the country has long been a firm favorite for
trafficking people into Europe
However,
after the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, Libya’s status as a terrorist
hub shot through the roof and, according to the documents, this could
be a perfect country for an all-out incursion into southern Europe.
Security
bells are ringing, especially in Italy, which saw 2,164 illegal
migrants rescued in the space of 24 hours over the weekend. It could
now be faced with many that are terrorists, according to Egyptian
Ambassador to London Nasser Kamel. "Those
boat people who go for immigration purposes and try to cross the
Mediterranean ... in the next few weeks, if we do not act together,
they will be boats full of terrorists also."
Just
as these assessments came to light, Italy issued its own statement,
outlining just how great a risk there is of Libyan militants merging
with the IS. On Wednesday its Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni spoke
of an "evident
risk" and
that time for Libya was "running
out".
He called for "a
change of pace" from
the international community.
IS
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has openly been claiming Libya for his
‘caliphate’ recently.
While
still not completely submerged, the country is fast on its way, as
whole cities conquered by the group now adhere to its strict form of
Islam, complete with executions.
Navigating
Libya’s terrorist circles is also a daunting task: some are allied
with the IS, others with Al-Qaeda. All are fiercely anti-government,
though some have helped install a new government in Tripoli, after
banishing the internationally-recognized one to Tobruk in the east.
"In
terms of the demographics of [IS] support in Libya, we see a lot in
common with its base of support in Iraq and Syria – many of its
fighters are young, disfranchised men who have only bought into
ISIL's brand of Islamist zealotry because they are looking to
forcibly empower themselves in the penetrating absence of the
state,” Winter
explains.
"The
risks Europe faces from ISIL pre-eminence in Libya are substantial."
The
onus would appear to be on the West to do something security-wise –
especially in places like Italy. But that country is already facing a
fierce backlash from UN’s refugee agency, the UNHCR, for seemingly
caring more about implementing stringent security policies on
immigrants, as opposed to caring for people’s safety when they
drown just off the coast trying to make it to a better life.
More
than 207,000 people have attempted the crossing to Europe over the
Mediterranean Sea this year –“almost
three times the previous known high of about 70,000 in 2011,” the
UN pointed out. That year saw a spike on account of the Libyan civil
war.
Libya
requests UNSC lift arms embargo to fight ISIS
Libya
and Egypt have asked the UN Security Council to lift restrictions on
the import of arms to the embattled Libyan government, but dropped an
Egypt-backed request for a military intervention to combat ISIS
extremist threat.
“Libya
needs a decisive stance from the international community to help us
build or national army’s capacity and this would come through a
lifting of the embargo on weapons so our army can receive materiel
and weapons so as to deal with this rampant terrorism,” Mohamed Al
Dayri, Libya’s foreign minister told the Security Council. His
country slipped into chaos following the 2011 NATO-led intervention
which toppled Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s rule
ISIS
have fetish for kinky underwear, Viagra, and ‘abnormal sex’ –
report
“Perverted”
ISIS fighters in the Syrian stronghold of Raqqa indulge in “brutal
and abnormal” sexual practices, in sharp contrast with the austere
religious image they try to project, claims a new report compiled by
local activist journalists.
“A
large section of ISIS members suffer from sexual anomalies and brutal
instinctive desire for sex, except for sadism and perversion which
they [are] carrying already,” alleges the online report, produced
by well-known underground citizen journalism group Raqqa Is Being
Slaughtered Silently (RSS).
Among
the laundry list of purported perversions is the purchase of “strange
underwear,” marrying “more than one wife, during short periods”
and the “search for blue pills in order to increase their strength
to have more sex.”
“Many
cases that have been recorded from hospitals and physicians, about
women who have been subjected to sexual practice in a brutal and
abnormal manner,” says Abu Mohammed, the activist author, operating
under a pseudonym.
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