Set the Trojan Horse on Fire

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This is on OP-Ed from February. It briefly shows where Kosovo is at currently. It won't let me copy pasta.
Albanian Daily News

 

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Granny says, "Dat's right - dem refugees is a trojan horse...

Fears Growing Islamic State Successfully Weaponizing Refugees
December 24, 2016 | WASHINGTON — Western security officials are increasingly worried that the Islamic State terror group may be a step ahead of their renewed efforts to stop terrorist infiltration of their countries.

Fears once centered on IS using migrant and refugee flows to sneak in highly trained operatives bent on carrying out attacks. Now they have expanded to include an equally dangerous possibility. A growing number of officials now warn that the terror group may be looking to essentially weaponize refugees and other vulnerable immigrant populations after they have successfully crossed Western borders and passed through what look to be ever-tougher vetting processes. “We have to be ready,” said Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, speaking prior to the deadly attack in Berlin. “Some people might get radicalized or manipulated or used or utilized by terrorist groups after they enter the EU,” he said. “This is something where I don't have clear indications.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government members visit the site of the attack in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 20, 2016, the day after a truck ran into a crowded Christmas market and killed several people.​

A Europol report published in November, "Changes in Modus Operandi of Islamic State (IS) revisited" — is even more explicit. “A real and imminent danger is the possibility of elements of the [Sunni Muslim] Syrian refugee diaspora becoming vulnerable to radicalization once in Europe and being specifically targeted by Islamic extremist recruiters,” the report stated. “It is believed that a number of jihadists are traveling through Europe for this purpose.”

Christmas market attack

Just how many terrorist operatives have been sent to Europe to recruit among the growing number of migrants and refugees is unclear. Europol cited German reports that, as of April 2016, there were approximately 300 cases in which jihadists tried recruiting refugees trying to enter Europe. But there is also a sense that IS, also known as ISIS, is likely not as focused on the numbers as it is on exploiting what it sees as a potent opportunity. “ISIS just wants to give itself options,” said Robin Simcox, a terrorism and national security analyst with the Heritage Foundation. “It chimes perfectly with what ISIS would want to do,” he added. “It enables them to extend their foreign operations.”

A car sits inside a police line as authorities respond to an attack at Ohio State University, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. A man plowed his car into a group of pedestrians and began stabbing people before he was shot to death by a police officer.​

Adding to the level of concern is the case this past week of Tunisian Anis Amri, who carried out a deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market. By most accounts, there were few signs Amri had radical leanings when as a 19-year-old, he arrived in Europe, on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Even when he left Italy for Germany years later, to seek political asylum, authorities say his behavior was more akin to that of a criminal than of a terrorist. Yet on Monday, the now 24-year-old Amri used a truck to plow through the crowded market, killing 12 people and injuring 56 others. Before the attack he made a video in which he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State terror group and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Ohio State University attack