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A 20-year-old Italian with
Moroccan roots who is suspected of being the author of a 64-page
Italian-language document of ISIS propaganda that recently
appeared on the Internet is among the people arrested on
Wednesday in an operation to bust a jihadist recruitment cell,
ANSA sources said.
The document, which was detected by the authorities on
February 28, presented propaganda detailing ISIS's version of
what it is doing in Syria and Iraq and how it supposedly
protects supporters and is ruthless with enemies.
The young man allegedly prepared the propaganda in
November.
Its significance is not so much the content, but the fact
that it targeted an Italian audience, according to
investigators.
It was published by a number of users on Facebook and
other websites, the sources said.
The two other people arrested are both Albanian nationals,
the sources said - an uncle and nephew, one of whom lives in
Albania, while the other is a resident of the province of Turin.
The three people arrested were allegedly in contact via
telephone and Facebook with Anas El Abboubi, one of dozens of
ISIS foreign fighters linked to Italy.
El Abboubi is currently thought to be in Syria.
He was arrested in June 2013, but subsequently released by
a court.
Before going to Syria he visited Albania.20
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