Alwaght- The radical terror group ISIS has claimed that it is only a matter of time before its fighters conquer Europe. The journalist Juergen Todenhoefer has interviewed a German ISIS fighter in Mosul on December.
"We will conquer Europe one day. It is not a question of we will conquer Europe, just a matter of when that will happen. But it is certain. ... For us, there is no such thing as borders. There are only front lines," the German ISIS fighter told Juergen Todenhoefer.
Defending mass enslavement and beheadings, the ISIS spokesman said it is planning to carry out "the largest religious cleansing campaign" in history and will not hesitate to kill hundreds of millions of people, if required.
The German journalist in his comments noted that Islamic State is a lot more dangerous than it has been perceived by Western leaders.
The beheading of 21 Coptic Egyptian Christians on a beach in Libya, shown as an online gruesome video, means that ISIS is at the doorstep of Europe.
The Egyptian government declared a seven-day mourning period and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi convened an emergency the National Defense Council to discuss what response to take and later on he said Cairo “reserves the right to respond in any way” to the killing of the 21 Copts by ISIS.
Egypt then launched air strikes against Isis targets in Libya.
ISIS military gains last summer forced other Islamist groups in the west Asia and North Africa to ally themselves with the group by pledging allegiance and changing their names. As the turmoil in Libya continued last year, ISIS gained control of the port city of Derna and nearby Sirte.
The terrorists behind the beheadings in Libya call themselves the Tripoli Province of the ISIS.
Days before ISIS releases its gory video, Libya’s former Prime Minister warned that the group would soon reach the Mediterranean and even Europe if order was not restored in the country.
Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano expressed the growing alarm in an interview with La Republica and urged NATO to intervene "for the future of the Western world."
"ISIS is at the door," he said. "There is no time to waste."
There is acute alarm in Italy that Islamic State has now established a presence on the shores of the Mediterranean, just a few hundred miles from Italian soil, boasting in the past few days of its plans to “conquer Rome”.
The growing presence of Isil in Libya could force tens of thousands of migrants to flee, especially Christians from Eritrea and West Africa, who may fear meeting the same fate as a group of 21 Egyptian Copts who were killed by Isil-affiliated extremists.
The Italian authorities also fear that terrorists could surreptitiously enter the country by mingling with the thousands of migrants who are streaming across the Mediterranean.
The interior ministry estimates that at least 200,000 refugees and immigrants are poised to make the crossing to Sicily or the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost territory.
Moreover, according to the Newsweek, Italy is ready to lead a multilateral effort to tackle the growing threat from jihadists in Libya and prevent “a caliphate” forming across the sea from Europe’s shores, the Italian defence minister has said.
In addition, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has also called on the United Nations to implement a “stronger mission” in Libya because Europe has to “stop sleeping” as jihadist groups continue to thrive near Europe’s borders.
ISIS militants could disguise as refugees and immigrants, but this is not the only way to enter Europe. Last year, a senior EU official claimed that a major Islamist terror attack in Europe is almost inevitable as European members of ISIS return from Syria and Iraq.
“The home affairs council is very aware and very frightened of this … The colleagues in the police administration just don’t know how to cope. They all fear this could be totally out of control. It may already be too late,” the senior official told the Guardian and five other European newspapers.
The EU has been trying to come up with a counter-terrorism strategy. The current emergency is jolting the process, but officials are intensely pessimistic that the results will be too little, too late.
According to the French authorities, the number of native terrorists in Syria and Iraq has soared from 555 to 932 this year. Of those, 118 have returned to France. According to experts consulted by European officials involved in the effort, an estimated one in nine of those returning represents a terrorist threat.
ISIS terrorists are planning to insert operatives into Western Europe disguised as refugees, claim US intelligence sources, who unencrypted locked communications of the caliphate’s leadership.
Turkey is also used by terrorists who want to join the ISIS in Syria, as they don’t need a visa to get there.
The terrorist 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, 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.
The latest video, though, is aimed at an external, rather than internal, audience, adding that it will force governments fighting ISIS to make a choice: engage in Libya at great economic cost, or risk looking weak and inconsistent. Either option is a win-win for ISIS.
