Italy prepares for potential ISIS air attack
According to recent reports,
the Italian Secret Service fears an air attack by ISIS, compounding the
already existent danger of terrorist infiltration among with throngs of
immigrants coming to Italy by boat from neighboring Libya.
Several days ago, the air defense system went into high alert after the secret service sent a notice.
The notice spoke of aircraft prepared to take off from Sirte and able
to strike the Italian peninsula.
Though this has not yet occurred,
tensions remain high because of the strong risk of an attack carried out
by “lone wolves” as occurred in Paris and in Copenhagen.
The State official responsible for the Secret Services, Marco
Minniti, said that ISIS has what he called both “symmetric and
asymmetric” capabilities, in that it can execute “both military and
terrorist campaigns.”
According to Minniti, this means that the ISIS
threat holds the “maximum unpredictability,” which is “unprecedented.”
Minniti also said that the dynamics of the situation makes necessary
“comprehensive data collection.”
Specifically, Minniti has called for the immediate implementation of a
Europe-wide sharing of Passenger Name Records (PNR) on all flights,
exchanging pertinent information especially regarding n passengers that
trigger suspicions, because though the Schengen open treaty should not
be suspended, “it is essential to maintain control of who moves in or
out of the theaters of war.”
Meanwhile, the Egyptian journalist Mustapha Bakri
has released details on the Egyptian special forces strike on Derna
yesterday.
According to Bakri, Egyptian forces “killed 155 terrorists
and captured 55 others before returning safely to Egypt.”
Bakri also reports that the Egyptian army was able to destroy several bases of the jihadist group.
Yesterday evening at a UN Security Council emergency meeting,
discussions centered on what course to take to confront the growing ISIS
threat in Libya.
Sebastiano Cardi,
the Italian Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council said
that Italy is “ready to contribute to the monitoring of a ceasefire and
the maintenance of peace” as well as “to provide training of the armed
forces in a framework of integration of the militias into a unified
battalion.”
Cardi also said that “the next few weeks will be crucial for the
future of Libya,” and urged a change of position from the international
community “before it is too late.”
Source: breitbart
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