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After the arrest of an Islamic State fighter in Mallorca, authorities worry the group may target European beaches and bathers over the summer in new terror attacks. According to the Madrid Ministry of the Interior authorities on the island of Mallorca arrested a 26-year-old who is said to have been in close contact with the leadership of the Islamic State in Syria. The young man used internet forums to recruit new fighters for the group and offered assistance to would-be fighters who wanted to make the trip to Syria. From his home in Palma the suspected terrorist also advocated new attacks and called upon others to commit acts of terror in Spain and elsewhere reports Kurier . The arrest comes at a time when media in Italy and Germany have both reported a heightened security alert on European beaches. According to information obtained from police chief, captain Pouye Seck, from the African nation of Senegal, ISIS fighters may target beach goers in Spain, Southern France and … [Read more...] about European Beaches Could be Next ISIS Terror Targets

The Islamic State (IS) are smuggling fighters into the EU posing as refugees according to a Libyan government adviser. Abdul Basit Haroun told the BBC that the terrorist state was able to bypass European Police and knew which of “their people” they needed to gain access to the EU. Thousands of North Africans have fled the fighting in their home countries to come to Europe. Most have entered the continent using people traffickers. They have received the de-facto assistance of European naval forced by picking up people from sinking smuggler boats and bringing those on board to Europe. Mr Haroun claimed they included IS fighters, and the system was being used in a calculated way to bring forces across the Mediterranean sea. He said IS was using the boats: “for their people who they want to send to Europe, as the European police don’t know who is from IS and who is a normal refugee or not”. It has long been a stated aim of IS to land troops in Europe via refugee boats, but so … [Read more...] about ISIS Smuggling Fighters Into Europe Posing As Refugees

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) – Mali’s foreign minister is accusing France of having colluded with the same Islamic extremists that it spent nearly a decade fighting until its troops departed earlier this week, an allegation sharply denied by the French government. The inflammatory letter sent to the president of the U.N. Security Council is the latest effort to undermine support for France, Mali’s former colonizer, at a time when some fear the French military departure could pave the way for militants to intensify their attacks. The last French troops from Operation Barkhane left Mali on Monday after relations sharply deteriorated with the Malian junta leader who seized power two years ago. “The government of Mali has several pieces of evidence that these flagrant violations of Malian airspace have been used by France to gather intelligence for terrorist groups operating in the Sahel and to drop arms and ammunition to them,” Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop wrote in his letter to the U.N. … [Read more...] about Malian Govt Accused Macron’s France of Collaborating with Jihadists

News Desk (AFP) Peshawar, Pakistan   ● Fri, December 1, 2017 2017-12-01 16:10 1721 1f87594453bb792833e1ece3a2b9db5b 2 World #Pakistan,#attack,#Taliban Free At least nine people were killed and dozens of others wounded when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar Friday, officials said. "We have received six dead bodies and 18 injured, two of them are in critical condition," a spokeswoman for the Hayatabad Medical Complex, Ishrat Bibi, told AFP. Another government-run hospital, the Kyber Medical Complex, said it had received three dead bodies and was treating 20 injured people. The militants are believed to remain inside the compound. An AFP reporter at the site saw a helicopter hovering over the area and heard gunshots from inside the building. A residential area also within the training institute compound is being evacuated. Wasim Riaz, a senior police official, said seven people injured so far have been … [Read more...] about Nine dead in Taliban attack on Pakistan school