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Trojan horse: ISIS militants come to Europe disguised as refugees, US intel sources claim
Islamic State militants are planning to insert operatives into
Western Europe disguised as refugees, claim US intelligence sources, who
unencrypted locked communications of the caliphate’s leadership.
The militant
organization is afraid of using aircraft due to strict security
rules, so they use land as an alternative, the US sources told
Bild Am Sonntag, a German national Sunday newspaper.
Disguised as refugees from Syria, Islamic State (IS, formerly
ISIS) operatives will cross the border to Turkey. Then, using
fake passports, they will travel further to European countries to
conduct attacks.
“In view of the chaotic conditions on the Syria-Turkey
border, it is nearly impossible to catch ISIS-terrorists in the
wave of refugees,” wrote Bild Am Sonntag.
Because hundreds of refugees cross the Syrian-Turkish border
every day, the jihadists have a good chance of remaining
unnoticed in the crowds.
Turkey is also used by jihadists who want to join the IS in
Syria, as they don’t need a visa to get there. They go on
‘vacations’ as tourists and upon arrival have almost no
trouble finding a way to cross the border.
According to one of Iraq’s foremost security experts with unique
access to intelligence, at least 100,000 jihadists were fighting
in the ranks of the IS in August.
There are some 15,000 foreign fighters from the IS in Syria
alone, including 2,000 Westerners, a US intelligence official
told AFP in September.
Germany continues to be one of the main goals of IS
An official from the German Interior Ministry told the paper that
the country is in the “focus of jihadist terrorism,” but
there is no indication at this time of any concrete attacks.
German security says that about 450 extremist German Muslims
traveled in the direction of Syria.
But it is still nearly impossible to track their country’s
radicals when they are heading from Germany to Syria, as they
don’t need a visa to travel to Turkey, a German official told the
Jerusalem Post.
About 150 Islamic fighters have returned from Syria to Germany.
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag
Last week it was revealed that German authorities encouraged some
jihadists to leave the country. Ludwig Schierghofer, the chief
officer in charge of counterterrorism at Bavaria's LKA
investigative police department, told public broadcaster
Westdeutscher Rundfunk that such measure is aimed at
"protecting our [German] population."
The issue was "to get people out of the country" if
there was evidence that "the danger existed that they might
commit attacks."
"If somebody had become radicalized and wanted to leave the
country, then we tried to either let him depart, or even sought
to accelerate their departure using legal means,"
Schierghofer said.
The measure was introduced in Bavaria, southeastern Germany, in
2009, but then abandoned in 2014 after the authorities understood
that they were actually helping IS militants.
IS continues Middle East advance despite US strikes
US-led airstrikes on the Islamic State are failing to stop the
advance of the jihadists.
The militants are reportedly approaching the outskirts of the
city of Kobani, a town in the Aleppo Governorate in northern
Syria near the Turkish border.
The situation in the town prompted some 186,000 Kurds to flee the
area across the border into Turkey, and groups of Kurdish
volunteers wishing to cross into Syria to defend the town against
the IS on Saturday clashed with tear gas-firing Turkish security
forces refusing to let them pass.
Around 100,000 people remain in Kobani amid the violence.
Enemy tactics: Kurdish female suicide bomber
‘attacks ISIS jihadists’ in Kobani
“Those who stay in the area are living in very poor
conditions, there is drastic shortage of food,” Muhammad, a
Kobani resident, told RT.
According to Osman, a Turkey-Syria border resident, Turkish
security forces prevent them from helping the Kurds, but the
residents of Kobani will continue to assist them where they can.
“We are eyewitnesses of the event. It seems that the whole
world has abandoned Kobani,” he told RT. “If the Kurdish
forces don’t get the supplies they need there will be a mass
slaughter among the Kurdish population.”
He added that so far the local residents “haven’t seen any
results of US strikes against the Islamic State.”
Western Europe disguised as refugees, claim US intelligence sources, who
unencrypted locked communications of the caliphate’s leadership.
The militant
organization is afraid of using aircraft due to strict security
rules, so they use land as an alternative, the US sources told
Bild Am Sonntag, a German national Sunday newspaper.
Disguised as refugees from Syria, Islamic State (IS, formerly
ISIS) operatives will cross the border to Turkey. Then, using
fake passports, they will travel further to European countries to
conduct attacks.
“In view of the chaotic conditions on the Syria-Turkey
border, it is nearly impossible to catch ISIS-terrorists in the
wave of refugees,” wrote Bild Am Sonntag.
Because hundreds of refugees cross the Syrian-Turkish border
every day, the jihadists have a good chance of remaining
unnoticed in the crowds.
Turkey is also used by jihadists who want to join the IS in
Syria, as they don’t need a visa to get there. They go on
‘vacations’ as tourists and upon arrival have almost no
trouble finding a way to cross the border.
According to one of Iraq’s foremost security experts with unique
access to intelligence, at least 100,000 jihadists were fighting
in the ranks of the IS in August.
There are some 15,000 foreign fighters from the IS in Syria
alone, including 2,000 Westerners, a US intelligence official
told AFP in September.
Germany continues to be one of the main goals of IS
An official from the German Interior Ministry told the paper that
the country is in the “focus of jihadist terrorism,” but
there is no indication at this time of any concrete attacks.
German security says that about 450 extremist German Muslims
traveled in the direction of Syria.
But it is still nearly impossible to track their country’s
radicals when they are heading from Germany to Syria, as they
don’t need a visa to travel to Turkey, a German official told the
Jerusalem Post.
About 150 Islamic fighters have returned from Syria to Germany.
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag
Last week it was revealed that German authorities encouraged some
jihadists to leave the country. Ludwig Schierghofer, the chief
officer in charge of counterterrorism at Bavaria's LKA
investigative police department, told public broadcaster
Westdeutscher Rundfunk that such measure is aimed at
"protecting our [German] population."
The issue was "to get people out of the country" if
there was evidence that "the danger existed that they might
commit attacks."
"If somebody had become radicalized and wanted to leave the
country, then we tried to either let him depart, or even sought
to accelerate their departure using legal means,"
Schierghofer said.
The measure was introduced in Bavaria, southeastern Germany, in
2009, but then abandoned in 2014 after the authorities understood
that they were actually helping IS militants.
IS continues Middle East advance despite US strikes
US-led airstrikes on the Islamic State are failing to stop the
advance of the jihadists.
The militants are reportedly approaching the outskirts of the
city of Kobani, a town in the Aleppo Governorate in northern
Syria near the Turkish border.
The situation in the town prompted some 186,000 Kurds to flee the
area across the border into Turkey, and groups of Kurdish
volunteers wishing to cross into Syria to defend the town against
the IS on Saturday clashed with tear gas-firing Turkish security
forces refusing to let them pass.
Around 100,000 people remain in Kobani amid the violence.
Enemy tactics: Kurdish female suicide bomber
‘attacks ISIS jihadists’ in Kobani
“Those who stay in the area are living in very poor
conditions, there is drastic shortage of food,” Muhammad, a
Kobani resident, told RT.
According to Osman, a Turkey-Syria border resident, Turkish
security forces prevent them from helping the Kurds, but the
residents of Kobani will continue to assist them where they can.
“We are eyewitnesses of the event. It seems that the whole
world has abandoned Kobani,” he told RT. “If the Kurdish
forces don’t get the supplies they need there will be a mass
slaughter among the Kurdish population.”
He added that so far the local residents “haven’t seen any
results of US strikes against the Islamic State.”
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