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Smuggling migrants into Europe now a major funding source for the Islamic State

Feb 4, 2017 5:08 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Islamic State long ago promised to infiltrate the refugee stream. As far back as November 2015, the Islamic State claimed to have smuggled thousands of jihadists into Europe. It was also recently reported that the Islamic State “planned to infect refugee flows to the West with mass killers, and it has had some violent successes.” The CIA warned that the Islamic State’s “official strategy is to hide its operatives among refugees entering Europe and the United States via human flows out of the Middle East and North Africa.”

Western leaders opted not to take these warnings seriously. Leftists have equated responsible measures to protect homeland security with unkindness and racism. The “Islamophobia” narrative has been a useful and effective tool that now allows virtually any misdeed committed by Muslim migrants to go unnoticed or be excused, no matter how tragic the cost.

“Smuggling Migrants to Europe Now a Major Funding Source for Islamic State”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, February 1, 2017:

Islamist terror groups including Islamic State are now getting much of their revenue from smuggling migrants into Europe, Italy’s intelligence chief has said.

Information gathered by intelligence agencies shows that criminal gangs in Africa who work to traffick migrants into Europe have developed “partnerships” with terrorist organisations in the Middle East including Islamic State, Alessandro Pansa told La Stampa on Tuesday.

“ISIS is facing serious setbacks. Its biggest sources of income — smuggling oil products and antiquities, are at the edge of drying out. We think terrorists are resorting to human trafficking as a new source of revenue,” Pansa told the newspaper.

Pansa, the Director General of the Department of Information Security, revealed the intelligence agency’s findings at a talk in Naples about Africa and the ‘risks and opportunities’ of immigration.

Describing the involvement of Islamic terror groups in human trafficking as a major challenge for Italy, the security chief said it’s vital that Italy works with governments in Africa to “attack at the roots of the migration phenomenon”.

Reuters reported on Monday that the Italian government has set up a fund to help African nations seal their external borders and help stem the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.

Pansa refused to give an opinion on actions taken by President Donald J. Trump to help protect the U.S. against terror attacks — suspending immigration of, and issuing visas to, citizens of seven countries.

However, Italy’s intelligence agencies are not surprised the new president has pushed forward with migration policies promised on the campaign trail according to the security chief, who added: “We were expecting it.”

Nearly 400,000 migrants reached Europe by sea in 2016, and more than 5,000 are believed to have died attempting the journey, aid agencies estimate.

In 2015 the then Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, urged the European Union (EU) to turn boats back to Africa, saying: “If you want to keep life safe, you’ve got to keep the boats stopped.”….

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the West Tagged With: Alessandro Pansa, Department of Information Security, human trafficking


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  1. Pal says

    Feb 4, 2017 at 7:23 am

    In addition to their announced plans for infiltration and smuggling opearives posing as refugees, IS has a well elaborated plan to use “Libya as a gateway for Europe” to send its people for attacks on towns, ports, ships: see its translation from 2015:
    http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/libya-the-strategic-gateway-for-the-is.pdf

  2. billybob says

    Feb 4, 2017 at 9:48 am

    It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. That photo is full of grim foreboding. The dark shadows behind the group of medical staff are like Angels of Death watching for their moment to strike.

    • Don Davenport says

      Feb 4, 2017 at 9:52 am

      My precise thoughts. In this case the picture is worth a 100,000 words. Maybe more…

    • A Harris USA says

      Feb 5, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      billybob, you saw that to?? well, as usual I saw military age men.. No babies, no old ladies, and no old people of any sex… Able body men, and a few women, this says it all.. NEVER do I see large groups of children, women, and old people..NO, only a army….. Is that not the plan??

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 4, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    So basically, refusing to admit “migrants” prevents islamic terrorist attacks on Western soil AND is a form of economic warfare against ISIS, in addition to helping save lives of “migrants”.

  4. Guest says

    Feb 4, 2017 at 5:52 pm

    Trump can say: “Thank you for that warning. This justifies my decision and right to not allow an entire class of people into the US, for security reasons.”

  5. Rufolino says

    Feb 5, 2017 at 2:34 am

    We heard all this before, 2 years ago. Nothing effective happened to stem the migrant flow into Italy.

    Italy has an atavistic fear of the Papacy, which is still regarded as the moral conscience of Italy. The Pope unambiguously stated that “there is no danger” from the migrant flow, and that we must “receive migrants with joy”.

    Therefore the migrant flow into Italy will continue unabated for the foreseeable future, whatever the weak, half-hearted attempts by the government to stop it. The government lacks determination on this question.

    A catastrophe in Europe is being created, and the Papacy will have some of the blame, along with Merkel and other foolish, not to say traitorous, politicians.

    • Elle says

      Feb 6, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      Have you read Oriana Fallaci’s book- The Force of Reason’ She was an Italian revolutionary war correspondent. This particular book explains the Muslim invasion from very early on. The catholic church, the media, the communists, the lefties, the right, everyone’s complicity in the invasion and how immigration is the root cause.

  6. eL says

    Feb 5, 2017 at 6:10 am

    Stupid Italians, just liek the stupid Greeks they let the boats in en-masse

  7. Najwa says

    Feb 5, 2017 at 8:33 am

    “[T]he Islamic State “planned to infect refugee flows to the West with mass killers”; maybe it was the accompanying picture of blanket-shrouded migrants being looked after by health workers that made me think immediately of Yersinia pestis (the bubonic / pneumonic / septicemic plague) as the ‘mass killers’?

  8. DFD says

    Feb 5, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    “Smuggling migrants into Europe now a major funding source for the Islamic State”

    That **really surprises** me! Who would or could have thought of that? A trough of gulf money, nicely topped by Soros & Co. — and that attracted ISIS. Fancy that….

    • RickMT says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 12:36 pm

      Someone please take Soros & Company on a midnight fishing trip.

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