Kosovo Arrests 19 in Islamic State Plot to Attack Israel Soccer Match
Posted: November 17, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Al-Raqqah, Ayn Issa, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Donald Trump, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Israel, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Middle East, Mosul, Syria, Syrian civil war, United States Leave a comment
Suspects planned ‘synchronized’ attacks in Kosovo and Albania, police say; weapons, ammunition and a drone seized in sweep
Police said the arrests were made over the past 10 days and that the suspects had planned “synchronized terror attacks,” without going into further detail.
“They were planning to commit terrorist attacks in Kosovo and also [an attack] against [the] Israeli football team and their fans during the Albania-Israel match,” Kosovo police said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that weapons, explosives, ammunition and a drone were seized during the sweep.
The police said the suspects were communicating and receiving orders from an Islamic State member, Lavdrim Muhaxheri, the self-declared “commander of Albanians in Syria and Iraq.” Read the rest of this entry »
