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Three Muslim migrants sent by the Islamic State arrested in Germany

Sep 13, 2016 2:04 pm By Robert Spencer

Ahmad al-Mohammed and one other of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees.

In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria aren’t really from Syria at all.

So why are they claiming to be Syrian and streaming into Europe, and now the U.S. as well? An Islamic State operative gave the answer when he boasted in September 2015, shortly after the migrant influx began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had already entered Europe. He explained their purpose: “It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it soon, inshallah.” These Muslims were going to Europe in the service of that caliphate: “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going with the plan of sowing blood and mayhem on European streets. As he told this to journalists, he smiled and said, “Just wait.”

On May 10, 2016, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, said that the Islamic State was using migrant routes through the Balkans to get jihadis into Europe.

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“3 Syrians believed sent by Islamic State arrested in Germany,” by Geir Moulson, Associated Press, September 13, 2016:

BERLIN (AP) – Three Syrian men believed to have been sent to Germany last year by the Islamic State group as a possible “sleeper cell” were arrested in raids on Tuesday, part of efforts to root out extremists sent to Europe amid the migrant influx, authorities said.

The three are accused of coming to Germany in mid-November at the behest of IS “in order either to carry out an assignment they had already received or to keep themselves ready for further instructions,” federal prosecutors said. The three are suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization.

Their arrests followed raids at refugee homes in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the men had been under observation for months, and that “there are no indications of concrete attack plans” at present.

“This may have been a sleeper cell,” he told reporters.

De Maiziere said the suspects appear to have made it to Europe through the same channels as two men who blew themselves up outside France’s national stadium in November in the Paris attacks claimed by IS.

“Everything points to the same smuggling organization as with the Paris attackers having brought these three who were arrested to Germany,” he said. “And everything points to the travel documents having come from the same workshop.”

Prosecutors identified the suspects only as Mahir Al-H., 17, Mohamed A., 26, and Ibrahim M., 18, in keeping with German privacy rules.

The three traveled to Germany via Turkey and Greece, the route used by most migrants to Europe last year. Mahir Al-H. joined IS in Raqqa, Syria, earlier last year and received weapons and explosives training, prosecutors said, before he and the other two suspects in October told an IS official responsible for “operations and attacks outside the IS area” that they would travel to Europe.

The three were provided with passports by IS and were given a “high four-figure sum” of cash in U.S. dollars as well as cellphones with a pre-installed communication program, prosecutors said in a statement….

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Filed Under: Featured, Germany, immigration, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Schleswig-Holstein, Thomas de Maizière


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  1. Jack Holan says

    Sep 13, 2016 at 2:51 pm

    Only in the West can we extend Privacy Rights to Non-Citizen, Non-Refugee, Illegal-Alien, Admitted terrorists in waiting. We wouldn’t want to violate “Rights” they don’t enjoy in IS or any Mid-East Country. G-d forbid we should do that, it would give them a bad image amongst their friends and prevent them from finding good jobs in the future.
    Just tell me, does the West realize they are in a real War they could lose from within and from without? START TAKING THIS WAR SERIOUSLY. ANY LEADER WHO ISN’T GET RID OF THEM

    • GiGi says

      Sep 13, 2016 at 4:04 pm

      Agreed Jack!

    • Bob says

      Sep 14, 2016 at 5:02 pm

      Jack – that’d take care of the vast majority of western politicians!

  2. Cecilia Ellis says

    Sep 13, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    “Prosecutors identified the suspects only as Mahir Al-H., 17, Mohamed A., 26, and Ibrahim M., 18 . . .”

    All young, male Muslims who were physically capable of remaining in the Syrian/Iraqi hot zone to engage the “enemy” from which they allegedly fled, but who instead infiltrated the million-man march to Europe, disguised as “refugees,” in order to slaughter soft targets — elderly men and women, priests, children, shoppers, diners or tourists . . .

  3. Angemon says

    Sep 13, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    Well, that’s 3 that they know of – and shortly after Merkel said that “refugees” did not brought terrorism…

  4. abad says

    Sep 13, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    The very few REAL refugees from Iraq and Syria are being turned away from the United States: 2 Christians, 1035 Muslims

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/1037-syrian-refugees-admitted-may-two-christians-1035-muslims

    Token Christians I presume?

    Meanwhile, Hussein O. is busy transforming the United States of America into the Ishnaqi States of Islam(TM pending)

  5. RichardL says

    Sep 14, 2016 at 7:45 am

    It will be very messy. A few days ago, Gilles Kepel, France´s soft-spoken government advisor on islamic terrorism, said that he expects a civil war. That is quite a turn around from someone who talked about giving Euro islam a chance.

    I believe European governments know of concrete plots and want to manage expectations. So the backlash against them won´t be quite as bad.

  6. Mark A says

    Sep 14, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    This is hardly surprising since ISIS specifically stated it was sending members into Europe amongst the migrant influx.

    Given the million plus migrants who arrived in Europe last year, one has to wonder how many more of these ISIS sleeper cells are in place and how much damage they will do in future.

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