Police make four arrests after intercepting communications between the Islamic jihadist group and a Moroccan-born Muslim in Italy. Italian prosecutors said they had thwarted plans by at least three people to carry out terror attacks against the Israeli Embassy in Rome and the Vatican.
Times of Israel Italian police arrested four Muslims involved in a foreign terrorist investigation, including a Moroccan-born man living in Italy who had received Islamic State orders to carry out an attack on the Israeli embassy in Rome, the prosecutors said. Two others suspects are still at large.
Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli told reporters that investigators intercepted communications from within Islamic State territory ordering attacks in Italy, “with particular attention to the city of Rome” and focusing on the Holy Year pilgrimage now underway.
Reuters said the Italian authorities tapped and recorded phone conversations between three of the suspects, and that possible attacks on the Vatican and the Israeli embassy in Rome were discussed.
“I swear I will be the first to attack them in this Italy of crusaders, I swear I’ll attack it, in the Vatican God willing,” one of the men now in custody was quoted saying in a transcript.
In a separate conversation, the same suspect spoke of seeking to attack the Israeli embassy and mentioned contacting an Albanian man to get a gun.
Authorities arrested the Moroccan-born man, identified as Abderrahim Moutahrrick, and his wife, Salma Bencharki. The couple had allegedly been planning on traveling from their home in Lecco, north of Milan, to Islamic State territory with their children aged 2 and 4. Romanelli said Moutahrrick had taken Italian citizenship and was an accomplished boxer.
Abderrahim Moutahrrick
Moutahrrick told another suspect in an intercepted call that he wanted “to hit Israel in Rome.”
Another Moroccan man who was planning to travel with them, identified as Abderrahmane Khachia, 23, was arrested in the northern city of Varese, prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors also issued arrest warrants for an Italian-Moroccan couple who left to join Islamic State last year with three small children. Romanelli said that the man, identified as Mohamed Koraichi, had become an Islamic State fighter and communicated the orders to carry out attacks in Italy while making arrangements for the other family to join Islamic State.
The fourth arrest was of Koraichi’s sister, prosecutors said.
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ISIS-linked hackers put out a list targeting more than 3,000 New Yorkers for death
FBI and NYPD officials plan to visit the homes of everyone targeted in the next few weeks. Individuals are being contacted about the threat from Caliphate Cyber Army, which includes leaks of their names, home and email addresses.
New York An ISIS-linked hacking group has posted a hit list that includes the names of thousands of New Yorkers. The list, released by the ISIS-related group Caliphate Cyber United, reportedly includes as many as 3,600 names, some of whom are employees at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, but many of whom are average residents. Experts speculate that the list is being used as a scare tactic and that there’s no immediate threat.
The list includes both names and personal information, with an announcement that says, “We want them #Dead,” according to NBC New York. None of the people on the list are well known, and ABC 7 reports that they live in areas that vary in affluence, which leads law enforcement to believe it’s a random fearmongering project. NBC New York’s report includes a map that shows the highest concentration of people on the list in Brooklyn.
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NBC News terror analyst Laith Alkhouri says the information was posted to a channel accessible only to certain ISIS supporters and was taken down after a short time. (Doing it this way, he says, makes it harder for law enforcement to track, since the group knows the details will become known publicly anyway.)
The FBI is notifying those named on the lists. In a statement, it said, “The FBI routinely notifies individuals and organizations of information collected during the course of an investigation that may be perceived as potentially threatening in nature.” Such lists have been released before, but they’ve typically been shorter and included information only on military personnel, government officials, and diplomatic officers.
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