Italian police on Thursday
arrested three terror suspects, an Algerian asylum seeker and
two immigrant Egyptian brothers, who had allegedly sworn
allegiance to ISIS.
The Algerian was arrested in a migrant processing facility
in Turin while the Egyptian brothers, a pizzaiolo and a laid-off
worker, were arrested at Finale Ligure near Savona in Liguria
and at Cassano d'Adda near Milan.
A fourth suspected jihadist eluded arrest because he is
abroad, police said.
A network led by the jihadists had two main goals: to send
fighters from Libya to ISIS in Iraq and Syria and to spread
literature on jihad, police said.
"They had sworn allegiance to the Caliph," police said,
referring to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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