Posted on 11/01/2023 9:24:28 PM PDT by 11th_VA
JTA — Police in at least three European countries have arrested people they said were threatening or planning terror attacks related to the Israel-Hamas war.
The arrests come amid a global spike in antisemitic incidents following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that has spurred an ongoing Israeli military response in Gaza. While police have offered widely ranging levels of detail about the threats they said they interrupted, they believe Israelis were possibly the intended targets of multiple plots.
In Duisburg, a German city of about 500,000 located near the Netherlands border, a man previously convicted of terrorism was arrested after police said he shared with an associate in Syria that he was planning an attack, possibly against a pro-Israel demonstration.
The man had previously trained with ISIS in Syria, according to local reports...
In the UK, The Telegraph newspaper reported that a man who arrived in the country in 2020 had been arrested after committing some kind of attack that he said he committed because children had been harmed in Gaza…
In Brussels, a Palestinian man was arrested after telling a federal refugee support agency that he was distressed by what was happening in Gaza and hoped to ”die as a martyr by blowing himself up.” …
In addition, police in Italy arrested two men whom they had identified as recruiters for ISIS in Europe, saying that they had decided to intervene because the war had heightened the risk of Islamic extremists taking action. The arrests came a day after gunmen allegedly tied to ISIS killed two people at a soccer game in Belgium...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Here’s a new idea, like that story have America develop a system of law enforcement including an honest and efficient federal intelligence group focused on foreign terror plots.
Couple that with a fair, even handed system of justice.
Too radical I guess. Just a thought.
WTH did people think would happen by allowing so many people from terrorist countries to enter the US unchecked?
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