All is not well in Europe - 1750 ISIS jihadists have returned to carry out attacks

EU has indicated that nearly 1,750 ISIS jihadists have returned to Europe - some of them have orders to carry out terror attacks. It seems 5,000 European fanatics had gone to Syria and Iraq and 15 to 20 per cent of them have been killed on the battlefield.
However, 35 percent have returned and some of them have come with 'specific missions'. Another 50 percent have remained in the battle arena.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 8 December 2016.

Belgium had expressed concerns on this development. There were two types of 'foreign terrorist fighters' returning and one of these is those who will be sent on specific missions.
Some of the European women and children born or raised in the so-called caliphate declared by ISIS in Iraq and Syria could pose a security threat because of radicalization. Some returnees have been convicted and are serving prison sentences and others are being monitored while some are free in their communities.


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As indicated by the Italian coastguard, nearly 4,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea even as tens of thousands of migrants continue to flee Libya and head towards Europe. The total may be a record in spite of the fact that around 4,400 migrants were pulled from unseaworthy boats in the region in a single day in August last year.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 May 2016.

Some 20 bodies were spotted in the sea while a spokesman of the Libyan has said that 766 migrants were rescued by the Libyan coastguard. Another 550 were found near the coastal city of Sabratha and 216 off Zwara. As per reports of Interpol last week, another 800,000 migrants in the lawless north African country are waiting for an opportunity to make the journey to Europe.
A study has claimed that people smugglers were organized in loosely connected networks and they continue to facilitate passage of migrants to Europe - the annual turnover of migrant smuggling was believed to have been in excess of $5bn in 2015.
Incidentally, annual EU net migration to the UK is of the order of a record 184,000 - this is based on the last immigration figures to be released before Britain votes in the EU referendum. This figure is an increase of 10,000 on the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number of migrants arriving at Calais has started to rise in recent weeks. This has led to apprehensions of another summer of humanitarian problems and cross-Channel disruption.


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It has now been revealed that one of the Islamic State suicide bombers who carried out the suicide attack in Brussels last month and killed 32 people had worked as a cleaner at the European Parliament. The attacks at Brussels Airport and on the Metro left 32 dead and another 270 wounded. ISIS has accepted responsibility for the attacks.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 April 2016.

There is no official confirmation but one of the airport suitcase bombers involved in the attacks worked there and was a Belgian. It is also revealed that at least 50 Islamic State supporters are working there as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff.
An official from the European Union institution has indicated that for a month in both 2009 and 2010, one of the suicide bombers worked as a cleaner in the parliament - he was engaged as a student summer job and had been employed through a cleaning company that was contracted by the European Parliament at the time. The individual did not have a criminal record when he was engaged and the firm had submitted proof of this to the parliament as required under the terms of their contract.


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