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Austria foils Islamic State plots to attack crowded holiday targets, including Vienna Christmas market

Dec 19, 2019 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Austrian police said on Monday they have foiled a terrorist plot to attack crowded targets in Austria, Germany, France, and Luxembourg during the holiday season, including the Christmas market at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.”

Every year at Christmastime, Europeans are at heightened risk for jihad attacks, yet still they keep on electing leaders who promote instability through open-door immigration.

“Austria Foils ISIS-Inspired Plot to Attack Vienna’s Christmas Markets,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, December 17, 2019:

Austrian police said on Monday they have foiled a terrorist plot to attack crowded targets in Austria, Germany, France, and Luxembourg during the holiday season, including the Christmas market at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.

The plot was exposed by an anonymous tip to the police, who arrested three ethnic Chechens in connection with the planned terror attacks.

The leader of the group was described as a 24-year old who was radicalized by ISIS propaganda and was previously arrested for attempting to travel to Islamic State territory so he could formally join the organization. The rather ambitious plot hatched by the group via telephone conversations included springing their leader from prison.

Not only did the ringleader communicate with his accomplices from prison by telephone, but he reportedly used a mobile phone, a serious breach of prison regulations.

The U.K. Foreign Office issued an advisory in early December warning that Christmas markets could be targeted by terrorists. The advisory was general in nature, listing no specific threats, and also included advice about coping with theft and travel problems….

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Filed Under: Austria, Chechnya, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Christmas, St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna Christmas Market


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  1. Chris D says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 9:14 am

    Globalism is a wonderful thing…. Right? These people who want to cause harm to Unbelievers – please just stay in your Homeland and wreak havoc there.

    • Sean VanPelt says

      Dec 21, 2019 at 6:45 am

      They’ve wreaked havoc in their own countries and have destroyed them, now…they are coming for ours. Our political leaders need to wake up!

  2. medforth says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 9:16 am

    “I’m driving over the nearest Christmas market.” – German employment office pays an IS terrorist for her training as a truck driver

    Songül G. covers her face with a file cover so that the cameras in the hall cannot record her. But she shows something of herself to the viewers behind her: they can see a picture drawn by the defendant and placed in the folder; a Batman effigy in a black cape with red boots. Maybe she sees herself as a superhero.But perhaps she also painted the picture for her son, who is allowed to witness the judge Petra Wende-Spors reading the verdict against his mother shortly after 11 a.m. in the audience this Monday: Songül G. is to serve five years and nine months because of the support of a foreign terrorist organization, three months longer than demanded by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office.” You wanted to help bring terror to Germany”, says Wende-Spors in her verdict to the accused. The chamber had “no doubts” that she was ready and willing to smuggle a Syrian IS-follower into Germany and give him shelter here so that he could commit an attack here.Songül G. from Bremen converted to Islam in 1999. She has three children aged two, eight and 16 who have three different fathers. In 2015 she began watching IS propaganda videos and joined Islamist chat groups. There she met Marcia M., an Islamist from Hildsheim who had joined the IS in Syria.A close friendship developed with Marcia M., both dreamed of living in the “Caliphate” of the IS and wished death to the unbelievers. Once the always veiled Songül G. confessed that she wanted to “strangle” the “unbelievers” that were staring at her and that she needed an “outlet” for her anger.Marcia M. tried to persuade her friend to leave for Syria. And Songül G. obviously prepared for it. She ordered electronics, suitcases and functional clothing on the Internet, cancelled the son from school and stopped paying rent. She discussed with Marcia M. whether it would be possible to receive German child benefit in Syria as well. Richterin Wende-Spors repeatedly emphasises how reprehensible it is to travel to the war zone with the three children in view of the expected situation: “You knew exactly what to expect there, and yet you wanted to take your children with you. Files could be restored on her computers, which show how children must cut off the heads of prisoners of the IS or shoot in the face.According to the court, the ” outlet ” for her anger was in the planning of the attack “against a major musical event in the Hildesheim area”, in which the defendant had been involved “at the latest since autumn 2016”, in which she had also agreed to give shelter to a prospective assassin.According to the prosecution, Songül G. had already previously agreed to marry one of the potential assassins, according to the surveillance of Messenger services. Two assassins, disguised as refugees, set off from Syria, but were intercepted and arrested in Turkey. When the police issued an exit ban for her in early 2018, she knew that the authorities suspect her of a crime. She immediately reversed her escape plans. A “serious turning away of the accused from the IS did not take place”, the presiding judge states.In the same year Songül G. began an apprenticeship as a truck driver sponsored by the employment office, where she also became known for her extremist remarks. During a driving lesson, she is said to have answered the teacher’s question about where she actually wanted to drive: “I’m driving over the nearest Christmas market.”
    More:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/12/im-driving-over-nearest-christmas.html

  3. Heidi says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 10:29 am

    Chechens? Do not forget what they have done in Boston. One may like Russia or not, that is personal, but this is what they have done to the Russian people https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chechen-terrorism-russia-chechnya-separatist

    • mortimer says

      Dec 19, 2019 at 10:49 am

      Agree with Heidi. GOOD CONNECTION OF THE DOTS! Chechens are SUFIS, by the way.

      Sufis make the best jihadists! They aren’t ‘peace-and-love’ pacifists. Sufis are ISLAMIC SUPREMACISTS. and FANATICS who work themselves into a trance and develop the delusion that Allah wants them to kill their opponents.

      Sufis are extraordinarily dangerous for that reason.

      (And what in heck does Vienna have to do with Chechnya?)

    • Mural says

      Dec 19, 2019 at 11:44 am

      We will soon hear that Muslims in these countries are worried and afraid. The usual leftist/Islamist apologist trope.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 10:41 am

    WHEN WILL THE KAFIRS LEARN ?

    Openly celebrating Christmas is BANNED under discriminatory Sharia law. Muslims hate Christmas because it is the supreme recognition of the Incarnation of the God-Man Jesus, which is blasphemy in Islam. Muslims want to ban Christmas in all (nominally) Christian countries.

    Banning Christmas and punishing Christians for openly celebrating it? Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 11:58 am

    This most recent ISIS jihad /terror/murder scheme that was stopped in Austria is yet a another example that in the different nations of Europe as a whole 91% of the victims of Islamic violence ,as in many cases deadly Islamic violence .The jihadists use firearms as well as using bombs .Even using themselves as human bombs time bombs ,just waiting to go off in the many cities of Europe . It only takes a few out of many to inflect much murderous harm. Those jihadists engaging in Islamic suicide/homicide bombings attacks is for a large part, the outcome the extreme brainwashing that is performed in Islamic mind programming centers which are mosques and madrasas. In those jihad mind control places students are thoroughly indoctrinated into the jihadist mindset of committing murderous bombing attacks in the jihad for the advancement of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.

    This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”

    In conclusion, just as that scorpion in the fable had proven himself by the dangerous and deadly, to self and others, because of his nature. The violent and murderous jihadists of Islam are as that scorpion, dangerous so self and other because they is their nature because they have been thought programmed in the ways of the violent and murdering jihad of Islam. As always stated above ,this is the sad and tragic reality of Islamic terrorism in today’s world.

  6. elee says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    Get ready for this wherever there are Muslims. Get ready for this where there arent any. This illustrates the futility of isolationism. Remember 9/11? How mmany American Muslims were involved in that jihad?? Dont ever think that sealing any border will work.

  7. No Muzzies Here says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    Hmmmm. Something about Christmas that the jihadists don’t like.

  8. b.a. freeman says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    The advisory was general in nature … and also included advice about coping with theft and travel problems….
    —
    “look out for pickpockets while traveling, and keep in mind that because of the busy season, your flight may be delayed. U might also be murdered.”

    hardy-har-har.

  9. gravenimage says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    Austria foils Islamic State plots to attack crowded holiday targets, including Vienna Christmas market
    ……………….

    How many attacks and plots have there been at this point on holiday targets? Glad this was foiled.

    God, I hate Islam

  10. Kirsch says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 8:43 pm

    It used to be Das Christkind, Gluehwein und Stollen at the Vienna markets, now it must be trained troops with a 30 clip magazine and one up the spout ready for welcoming the sons of the religion of peace
    These politicians are not stupid.. they know all this will eventually lead to the imposition of marshall law to “Protect Us”….and then it begins..

  11. Wellington says

    Dec 19, 2019 at 11:31 pm

    Wherever Muslims are potential violence or actual violence is the norm. Started with Mo and has continued to this very day.

    Sick of Islam. By now, if one isn’t there is something wrong with that person if an adult—willful ignorance, indefensible apathy, rank sentimentalism, actually a deluded Mo follower, overall stupidity, the poison of Leftthink, et al.

    There is no excuse for not being sick of Islam—all of it. It is a curse to mankind. In Austria. In the West in general. Even in Muslim lands. No exceptions anywhere.

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