ISIS plans
to storm Europe, cause 'pandemonium' in cities Jihadist
army also eyes closure of international shipping lines by Aaron Klein
ISIS is planning to use Libya as a “gateway” to Europe and
has raised the possibility of storming southern European cities to cause
“pandemonium” or closing international shipping lines in the Mediterranean Sea.
This according to documents released by ISIS supporters and
propagandists and obtained by the Quilliam Foundation, a Britain-based think
tank that focuses on counter-extremism.
The purported ISIS documents, obtained and reviewed by WND,
received widespread news coverage.
However, some of the more sensational possibilities
described within the pages were largely overlooked.
The documents indicate ISIS views Libya as not just fertile
ground for a headquarters but as a staging base to infiltrate Europe by boat
along with the hundreds of migrants who daily attempt to flee to Italy.
One ISIS document recognized Libya has a “long coastline” that
“looks upon the southern Crusader states, which can be reached with ease by
even a rudimentary boat.”
The document noted “the number of ‘illegal immigration’
trips from this coast is massive, estimated to be as high as 500 people a day,
as a low estimate.”
It states that “according to many [of these immigrants], it
is easily possible to pass through Maritime Security Checkpoints and arrive in
[European] cities.”
“If this was even partially exploited and developed
strategically, pandemonium could be wrought in the southern Europe. It is even
possible that there could be a closure of shipping lines because of the
targeting of Crusader ships and tankers.
The Quillium Foundation warns: “Therefore, the opportunities
that lie in the exploitation of human trafficking rings make Libya unparalleled
as a launching platform for attacking European states and shipping lines.”
The ISIS documents extensively discuss what they claim are
massive caches of light, medium and heavy munitions in Libya. Jihadists are
urged to make their way to Libya to help expand the caliphate.
“Not only will pressure on the land of the Caliphate in
ash-Sham be relieved, but the territories of the Caliphate in ash-Sham, Iraq
and Hijaz will be linked with those of their brothers in Libya and the Islamic
Maghreb and the defeat of all regimes and tyrants in their way will be
enabled.”
How real are ISIS’s claims about migrant boats flooding
Europe?
Just last week, Italy
reportedly rescued some 2,164 migrants coming from Libya on about a dozen boats. The incident took place the same day Italian coast guard
members were reportedly threatened by four armed men who approached them by
speedboat from the Libyan coast.
The U.N. refugee organization UNHCR estimates that at least
218,000 migrants from North Africa crossed the Mediterranean by boat last year,
with some 3,500 dying on the way.
Italy’s defense minister, Roberta Pinotti, told the
country’s Il Messaggero newspaper last week the potential for terrorists
infiltrating Italy in boats carrying immigrants from Libya “could not be ruled
out.”
With additional research by Joshua Klein.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/isis-plans-to-storm-europe-cause-pandemonium-in-cities/
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