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Italian Busts Show COVID-19 Hasn’t Slowed IS Narcotics Production for Terrorist Financing
July 07, 2020
The massive drug busts of IS-trafficked methamphetamines and hashish by Italian police over the past two weeks underscores the Islamist extremist group’s ability to maximize narcotics production and market share, in order to sustain revenues for terrorist financing purposes worldwide.
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Belgian Security Warns of Spreading Saudi & Turkish Forms of Islamism
July 07, 2020
Belgium’s State Security Services (VSSE) has identified the spreading influence of Saudi Arabian and Turkish forms of Islamism in the country as a key long-term security threat, along with growing rightwing extremism, and the rising presence of Chinese military students studying in Belgium.
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IS Kills More Civilians in Latest Jihadi Attack in Nigeria
July 07, 2020
The Nigerian branch of the IS (ISWAP, Islamic State of West Africa) has killed more civilians in its latest attack in the West African country, part of the expanding scope of jihadi violence by various Islamist extremist groups in the region.
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Philippines Police Kill Four in IS Sleeper Cell in Capital City
July 04, 2020
Philippines police killed four IS militants in a raid on a local sleeper cell in the country’s capital city of Manila, indicating that the local IS branch is beginning to expand into urban areas from the Islamists’ concentration in the southern part of the island nation.
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Italian Police Bust IS Narcotics Motherload
July 04, 2020
Italian police reported the single largest seizure ever of amphetamines narcotics, with the drug bust of an IS shipment at the port of Salerno exposing the use of narcotics trafficking in Europe as a major financing tool of the Islamist terror group.
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