Posted on 11/12/2015 11:46:24 AM PST by tcrlaf
Police in Italy, Britain, Norway and Finland on Thursday arrested 15 members of a jihadist network linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda who are suspected of planning attacks and kidnappings targeting EU diplomats, officials and journalists to bargain for the release of jailed colleagues.
Italy’s anti-terrorism chief Giuseppe Governale, announcing the details of “Operation JWeb,†called it “the most important international police operation in Europe in 20 years.â€
The detainees included major names on the global jihadi network, foremost among them Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi Kurd who co-founded Ansar al-Islam, an armed Sunni Islamist group linked to al Qaeda and ISIL.
Since 1991, Mullah Krekar has lived in Norway where he has had an expulsion order pending for years because of the threat he poses to national security — the scale of which was made even clearer by phone taps released by police when they announced the arrests. Oslo has so far refrained from expelling Krekar because he could potentially face the death penalty in Iraq.
“He’s a very significant jihadi creature, one of the big names,†said Raffaello Pantucci, counter-terrorism expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
"“If [Mullah Krekar] is annihilated, Norway is going to become Lebanon. You will see how the bombs go off — boom, boom, boom at the police,†reads an excerpt from one of the phone taps, which also included conversations about potential kidnap targets among the Norwegian community abroad."
There is no amount of provocation that will stop Europe from committing suicide.
Norway should put a bullet in Krekar’s head in a public square on live TV.
That's the way I'd bet.
It sure would have been horrible if they snatched our last two Secretaries of State. I would have been heartbroken.
I agree but if the Italians want him they can have him. We’ve spent 12 years trying to get rid of the POS.
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