Ireland being used as 'transit hub for Jihadis'

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One of the individuals who features high up in all international terrorism bulletins has been living in south Dublin for over 15 years.

He co-ordinates an intricate financial network on behalf of Islamic State as well as a number of front companies set up to launder money. He receives up to €3,000 a month from the Department of Social Welfare, had links to al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi who was responsible for a series of suicide bombings and beheadings in Iraq before he was killed by US forces.

His main role in the jihadist movement is in procuring elaborate false documentation including passports and visas for various countries.

Ireland being used as transit hub for Jihadis heading for Iraq and Syria - Independent.ie

 

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Shane Phelan and Tom Brady

30 November 2012


THE United States government closely monitors the country's main mosques amid American concern over alleged Islamic 'extremists' operating in Ireland, leaked embassy cables reveal.


US closely monitors Ireland s 40 000 Muslim community - Independent.ie


This was in 2012, the CIA must have increased the surveillance since then.

 

[barryqwalsh]

America would be crazy to rely on Ireland to do anything. It has not got the capibility or.
the will to do anything.

 

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'Far too many Western Muslims speak of their inherited freedoms as a sin – and it's deplorable'


Far too many Western Muslims speak of freedom as a sin - Comment - Voices - The Independent