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Extra Troops Posted in Rome Following ISIS Threat
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 2/23/15 | Staff Reporter

Posted on 02/23/2015 6:13:05 AM PST by marshmallow

Rome on high alert with Islamic State just 300 miles from Italy

About 500 extra troops have been stationed around historic sites in Rome after ISIS made threats against the city last week.

Italy, which is just 300-miles from jihadi-controlled territory in Libya, was referred to by the terrorists as “the nation signed with the blood of the cross” in a recent video.

ISIS has made repeated references to conquering Rome in its various messages, although there is some debate about whether “Rome” in fact refers to a symbolic enemy, or perhaps Turkey or the United Sttaes. However, according to USA Today, security has been increased in the city.

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1 posted on 02/23/2015 6:13:05 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Rather silly to post more troops in Rome while allowing hordes of Muslim migrants to enter the country and stay.


2 posted on 02/23/2015 6:15:26 AM PST by allendale
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To: marshmallow

They had better be ready for a MiG-21 on a one-way mission to St. Peter’s Basilica. If they don’t have strip alerts at both ends of Sicily, they are already behind the power curve.


3 posted on 02/23/2015 6:21:04 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: allendale
ISIS rolling through Rome and attacking the Vatican sounds a lot more like the third secret than "Pope JP II was shot but got better. It says:

...a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.

4 posted on 02/23/2015 6:22:15 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: marshmallow
Wouldn't be the first time.


5 posted on 02/23/2015 6:34:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SampleMan

Exactly right. A jet jockey who can fly at wave-top height, I’m thinking.


6 posted on 02/23/2015 6:35:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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7 posted on 02/23/2015 6:36:38 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: marshmallow

The savages mean Christianity. Italy needs to kick them all out.


8 posted on 02/23/2015 6:52:34 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Travis McGee

I worry that they will just intercept an airliner leaving Sfax, Tunisia for Rome, tuck in tight behind it after takeoff and trail it all the way to the Italian coast at Rome. Then gun the airliner, lower the nose, and go full burner into the Vatican or NATO headquarters (more likely the Vatican.

Italy/NATO also needs to place SAM and AAA batteries in the target areas for that reason. Or better yet, start taking out the Libyan aircraft on the ground.


9 posted on 02/23/2015 7:01:43 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: marshmallow
About 500 extra troops have been stationed around historic sites in Rome after ISIS made threats against the city last week.

Do they actually have rifles? Or broomsticks, like the German "troops" who were doing "war games" recently?

10 posted on 02/23/2015 8:09:08 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: I want the USA back

But if you kick’m all out you will also eject the many “normal” and peaceful muzzies, and that would be an unjust act.

We in the US are also facing a similar dilemma, but we are kicking this handgranate down the road.


11 posted on 02/23/2015 9:11:22 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: Travis McGee

Interesting maps. Thank you.


12 posted on 02/23/2015 9:14:02 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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