Islamic State ‘planning to use Libya as gateway to Europe’

Ruth Sherlock, Beirut and Colin Freeman

Czytaj Wyborcza: Kalifat: wtargniemy do Europy jako imigranci

“Z Libii do miast krzyżowców dostaniemy się byle łódką – jako nielegalni imigranci, którzy setkami ściągają do Europy” – ekstremiści z Państwa Islamskiego chwalą nową siedzibę w Libii i grożą Europejczykom nowymi atakami.

Plan jest prosty – przerzucić do Libii jak najwięcej radykałów z Syrii i Iraku, gdzie latem ub.r. stworzyli islamski kalifat. Stąd na statkach z nielegalnymi imigrantami mają przeprawiać się przez Morze Śródziemne do Europy, gdzie będą przeprowadzać nowe zamachy.

Migrants wait to disembark from a ship in the port of Porto Empedocle, Sicily

Exclusive: Jihadists hoping to use Libya as a “gateway” to wage war across the whole of southern Europe, plans by Isil supporters reveal

Islamic State militants are planning a takeover of Libya as a “gateway” to wage war across the whole of southern Europe, letters written by the group’s supporters have revealed.

The jihadists hope to flood the north African state with militiamen from Syria and Iraq, who will then sail across the Mediterranean posing as migrants on people trafficking vessels, according to plans seen by Quilliam, the British anti-extremist group.

The fighters would then run amok in southern European cities and also try to attack maritime shipping.

The document is written by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) propagandist who is believed to be an important online recruiter for the terror in Libya, where security has collapsed in the wake of the revolution that unseated Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.

The group has already established Libyan-based cells, who on Sunday released a video showing a mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Christian guest workers.
The video, which prompted Egypt to launch retaliatory bombing raids on Isil positions in Libya, included footage of a khaki-clad militant pointing a bloodstained finger northwards, declaring: “We will conquer Rome, by Allah’s permission.”

The Isil propagandist, who uses the alias Abu Arhim al-Libim, describes Libya as having “immense potential” for Isil. He points out with relish that it is awash with weapons from the Libyan civil war, when large quantities of Col Gaddafi’s arsenals were appropriated by rebels. Some of those weapons came from Britain, which supplied the Gaddafi regime with machine guns, sniper rifles and ammunition during his final years in power, when he was seen as an ally against Islamist terrorism.

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Op-Ed: Who Was Kayla Mueller?

Lee Kaplan

Kayla Mueller

A look at the writings of the ISIS victim shows her support and aid to Palestinian Arab terror groups, her acting as a human shield for them, and her active participation in anti-Israel protests. Rachel Corrie did the same.
Sadly, she was allegedly killed by the Jordanian air raid attacks according to ISIS who held her hostage, although the United States says there is no evidence to that effect. The truth of how Kayla Mueller, 26, died may never be discerned. However, despite the sadness at her needless death, the myth that she was wonderful altruistic young woman should be exposed. This is another Rachel Corrie propaganda story in the making, and the western media is falling for it again, or embracing it on purpose.

Kayla Mueller was a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who spent at least two years working with that terrorist support group. She was involved in demonstrations against the Jews in Sheikh Jarrah (part of East Jerusalem) after a 20 year long court decision recognized the Jews’ legal rights to homes they were chased from in earlier wars launched by the Arabs. She also participated in demonstrations to interfere with the IDF demolishing the homes of terrorists and suicide bombers after the courts okayed the demolitions.

Just as with Rachel Corrie, the press tries to paint Kayla as a selfless volunteer helping poor Arab refugees. She may have helped injured Arabs in “refugee” camps, but she was working to support the goals of Palestinian irredentists and to interfere with the IDF on behalf of terrorist groups.

As an ISM activist she was a tool for the worldwide jihad.

A letter she wrote which appears on the ISM’s website describes the usual ISM claims of atrocities that never occurred, but were fabrications worthy of Pallywood.

First, she lived and rioted with other ISM activists with an Arab family that refused to vacate a home they were squatting in after a legal case that took 20 years established it was stolen from the Jewish owners.

She wrote propaganda letters for the ISM website:

“Just the next year in 2009 Ashraf’s brother, Bassem Abu Rahma, was participating in the demonstration and was attempting to communicate with the IDF soldiers telling them to stop shooting the steel-coated rubber bullets as an Israeli activist had been shot in the leg and needed medical attention. Not soon after an Israeli soldier illegally used a tear gas canister as a bullet hitting Bassem in the chest, stopping his heart and killing him instantly,” she wrote.

Of course, the Arab propaganda rag Al Jazeera told the story that way. This really occurred during one of the weekly riots in Bi’ilin in the West Bank where the Arabs demonstrate “nonviolently” by throwing rocks at the IDF soldiers as well as incendiaries. Kayla was there with the ISM to participate. Kayla admitted to being present at the weekly riots.

She was also a human shield in support of terrorists. She wrote:

“I could tell a few stories about sleeping in front of half demolished buildings waiting for the one night when the bulldozers come to finish them off; fearing sleep because you don’t know what could wake you. . . . I could tell a few stories about walking children home from school because settlers next door are keen to throw stones, threaten and curse at them. Seeing the honest fear in young boys eyes when heavily armed settlers arise from the outpost; pure fear, frozen from further steps, lip trembling.”

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Nie żyje prof. Feliks Tych

K. Bielawski

prof. Feliks Tych (foto: K. Bielawski)

W wieku 85 lat zmarł prof. Feliks Tych – historyk, wieloletni członek zarządu Stowarzyszenia Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, były dyrektor Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego.

Feliks Tych urodził się 31 lipca 1929 r. w Warszawie. Wojnę przeżył ukrywając się u polskich rodzin, m. in. u Janusza Durko. Był członkiem Rady Naukowej Instytutu Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, członkiem komitetu redakcyjnego Polskiego Słownika Biograficznego, redaktorem naczelnym Słownika biograficznego działaczy polskiego ruchu robotniczego. Tytuł profesora otrzymał w 1970 r. W latach 1995-2006 kierował Żydowskim Instytutem Historycznym. Był także członkiem pierwszej Rady Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich.

Dorobek naukowy prof. Feliksa Tycha to wiele cenionych książek i opracowań, między innymi: Czwarte powstanie czy pierwsza rewolucja: lata 1905-1907 na ziemiach polskich, Długi cień Zagłady: szkice historyczne, Facing the Nazi genocide.

Marian Turski ze Stowarzyszenia Żydowski Instytut Historyczny mówi: „Feliksa Tycha znałem przez 65 lat. Był wybitnym historykiem, znakomitym badaczem archiwaliów, autorem bardzo ważnych opracowań. Warto zwrócić szczególną uwagę na książkę Długi cień Zagłady, a przede wszystkim na efekt 2-letnich prac prowadzonych pod Jego kierunkiem, które zakończyły się wydaniem książki Następstwa zagłady Żydów. Polska 1944-2010. To wielkie i doniosłe wydarzenie naukowe”.

Albert Stankowski – kierownik Działu Zbiorów Niematerialnych w Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN – zapamiętał Profesora jako osobę zawsze chętną do pomocy: „Profesor nigdy nie odmawiał historykom, którzy prosili Go o konsultację i pomoc”.

Magdalena Prokopowicz – długoletnia współpracowniczka prof. Feliksa Tycha, powiedziała: „Profesor Feliks Tych był dla mnie największym nauczycielem. Na zawsze zostanie autorytetem”.

Trwają przygotowania do pogrzebu. Wiadomo już, że Profesor spocznie na cmentarzu żydowskim w Warszawie.