Italy: Militants might turn attention to domestic targets
Italy: Militants might turn attention to domestic targets Islamist militants based in Italy unable to reach war zones might turn their attention to domestic targets, a parliamentary report on national security said Monday. Anti-Western or anti-Italian sentiment may fuel attacks on “members of institutions or well-known figures seen as guilty of anti-Islam stances,” the intelligence services told parliament in their annual report The report cited a failed suicide bomb attack on a Carabinieri station in Milan in October as “the first jihadi attack on national territory”. Islamist cells which have only been engaged in logistical support or recruiting so far could make a “quality leap” and decide to attack, the report said.
Islamist militants based in Italy unable to reach war zones might turn their attention to domestic targets, a parliamentary report on national security said Monday.
Anti-Western or anti-Italian sentiment may fuel attacks on “members of institutions or well-known figures seen as guilty of anti-Islam stances,” the intelligence services told parliament in their annual report
The report cited a failed suicide bomb attack on a Carabinieri station in Milan in October as “the first jihadi attack on national territory”.
Islamist cells which have only been engaged in logistical support or recruiting so far could make a “quality leap” and decide to attack, the report said.
“Isolated individuals or small cells could spring into action in a wholly autonomous way” like the 34-year-old Libyan who blew off his hand while trying to get a rudimentary bomb into the main Milan Carabinieri barracks on October 12, it said.
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Source: Life in Italy (English)
