Posted on 07/21/2016 8:52:41 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Brazil's federal police today arrested 10 people and smashed a network allied to ISIS that was preparing 'acts of terrorism' at next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
President Michel Temer has called an emergency cabinet meeting and Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said the operation spanned nine states across Brazil, although the arrests were made in the southern states of Sao Paulo and Parana.
A court in Parana said there were indications the group was planning to use weapons to launch attacks similar to the Paris atrocities in November last year.
Earlier this month Mr Moraes said a jihadist attack in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics was a 'possibility' but 'not a probability'.
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If I was an athlete, I would not be going to Rio.
Wonder if the former Gitmo detainee released by Obama and has disappeared from Uruguay is in on this.
That's a LOT of police.
A million would have sufficed.
Wow, 10 whole people. I’m sure everything will go smoothly now.
“A court in Parana said there were indications the group was planning to use weapons to launch attacks similar to the Paris atrocities in November last year.”
It’s the trucks, stupid!
I heard the terrorists were going to force people to drink the water.
OlExit
Each “athlete” is getting 46 condoms according to Yahoo Nuze. I think it’s - the Olympic Games - more of a leftist sex party / drug party / dance party nowadays. I see it as another UN supported political propaganda event than a sporting competition - never watch it
and still searching for 2 more-
the terrorist from gitmo is still in hiding-
BUT- we are winning the war against isil-
bigger Snews... Trumps wife likes Mooochele!
and repeated some lines she once said- I think she should be in Prison- also, she flaunts her beauty way toooo much-
Big SARC tag
No way I would be anywhere near these Olympics. The waters theya athelics will swim in are full of human waste. Crime is horrible in Rio. Plus now obamas bff’s isis too.
[Each “athlete” is getting 46 condoms]
No worries. They’re protected.
We should be hunting ISIS in America. No bag limit. Reward for most tags in a day.
Problem is ISIS is never a one off....where are the other plotters?
I think that not going to Rio is excellent advice for athletes and non athletes alike!
(ISIS can just kick back and claim they they are responsible for a biological terrorist attack without actually doing anything.)
Foz do Iguacu, in the region known was Tres Froneras, in the Brazilian state of Paraná, where the borders of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet had a very large Muslim population 20 years ago. I can only imagine how it is now. Since all 3 countries are part of the Mercosul "free trade" agreement and people were more or less free to wander around between the 3 counties. Border controls were negligible. A great place to hide, a great place to smuggle anything.
There's a saying in Paraná - "temos dois problemas no sul do Brasil, muçulmanos e mosquitos" - "There are two problems in southern Brazil, Muslims and Mosquitoes." I got the impression they could live with the bugs.
If I was an athlete, I would not be going to Rio.
Praying for the safety of all of these wonderful, hard working young people.
You know, mark the terrorists at ten thousand per head and you’ll see college/university students marching the streets hunting these people down. A win-win since students will go wild to make money, it will eliminate the student debt, and then of course, the terrorists will be hunted so thoroughly that our intelligence agencies won’t end up being needed in this area.
“I heard the terrorists were going to force people to drink the water.”
And if they refused, they were going to be forced to swim in it.
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