ISIS Stepping-Stone to Europe Identified - Alpine Nation Expected to Serve As Swinging Door with Mideast

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WASHINGTON – Austrian intelligence has concluded the European country figures prominently in a five-year game plan of the Islamic State, formerly called ISIS or Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham, as evidenced in the map above, said to show the group’s blueprint for expanding its self-proclaimed caliphate into Europe, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Austria has become a central hub for jihadis from Europe who want to fight in Syria. Austria’s central location also helps facilitate a diffusion of jihadis throughout Europe with a minimum of detection.

The information has appeared in an Austrian newspaper and a Gladstone Institute report which has concluded the country, in effect, has become a “springboard for global jihad.”

Jihadis already use Austria because of its direct route through the Balkan countries and into Turkey, which even now refuses to block them from entering Syria, even though Ankara belatedly has declared ISIS a terrorist group.

ISIS has begun to launch attacks on towns in southern Turkey and continues to detain Turkish diplomats it recently kidnapped when it took over Mosul in Iraq. That is despite the fact Turkey was very instrumental, along with U.S. logistical support, in backing jihadis who first fought with the Syrian opposition but then splintered off and joined ISIS.

Because it apparently has become a central European hub for jihadis, the Austrian government has begun to increase its own intelligence gathering and analysis capabilities.

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