Highlights of the night of terror on the Promenade des Anglais: a truck at full speed through the crowd that had watched the fireworks
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Rome – the massacre of Nice , which resulted in 84 dead and about 200 injured, has set in motion an acceleration of military operations to focus of Raqqa. The French secret services were convinced that orders to hit Europe , and propaganda to inspire ‘lone wolves’, start from a single center in Isis capital.
Yesterday the Paris agents have discussed with American colleagues, and with the other allies, urging intervention to neutralize this threatened , and have achieved solidarity and consent. The transaction would not lead to the widespread use of Western troops, as well as special units already long been in Syria , but would rely instead on already trained Kurds and Arabs contingent and supported by anti Isis coalition.
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11,03 Isis: “Action made in response to our appeals”
in the claim of responsibility for the bombing in Nice – reports the activity monitoring website Islamic site – the precise Islamic state that the action was carried out in response to his appeals to affect citizens of countries involved in the anti-coalition Isis.
10:30, the Isis reselling the attack
“the operation author of Nice in France is one of the soldiers of the Islamic State. Conducted this operation in response to the calls to hit the population of the coalition fighting the Islamic State “: the claim of the attack in Nice has come through Amaq, the news agency of the Caliphate.
10:00, the father of a wounded girl: ’5 hours to find it “
” it was not easy to find my daughter in the hospital in Nice , it took me 5 hours to track her down. And so far I could not find my wife “: thus told Roberto Ponte, mayor of Piasco (in the province of Cuneo), the husband of Carla Gaveglio, one of two women who are missing cuneesi . According to what he told the 14 year old daughter, my mother, after having rescued two friends of the girl, he has taken ill and was loaded into the ambulance, but he would not report injuries.
9:55, 31 Italians still to trace
I am 31, the Italian still to be traced after the terrorist attack on Thursday night in Nice. It is learned Crisis Unit of the Foreign Ministry, including three officials arrived last night in the city of French Riviera , and are working to meet the names of the various lists of Italians present in the area. Today has arrived in Nice Italian ambassador in France, Giandomenico Magliano.
9:45, stops 5 people
The French police have stopped five people (and not 3, as reported in first) in connection with the attack, as reported by the broadcaster Europe 1: the catches were made, they reported “police sources” among the people of the “inner circle” of knowledge of the aggressor; Friday had been stopped the former wife of the author of the massacre, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
9.31, partially reopened the Promenade
has been partially reopened the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, except for the site of the massacre, bordered by the Police Nationale with ribbons: 300 meters of the walk are still forbidden both to vehicular traffic both pedestrians and remain manned. Continues the influx of people bringing flowers, cards, and French flags that read “je suis Nicois, je suis Francais”.
The operation of Mosul
Raqqa The fact that both in the viewfinder is not new. A few days ago, the Pentagon has sent 560 more troops to Iraq, with the declared aim of favoring the operations to resume Mosul, the largest city of Iraq controlled by ISIS, and later Raqqa, ie the capital of the Islamic State. During a surprise visit to Baghdad, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has spoken very clearly to the troops: “You – he said – now you will board the next important step in our campaign: the collapse of Isis control of Mosul, here in Iraq, and of Raqqa in Syria. ”
Syria, difficult terrain
The strategy has always been to gradually remove portions of territory ISIS , to physically eliminate him, and to cancel its propaganda linked to the creation of an Islamic state. The reconquest began in Iraq, because there was easier to lean on the local troops. Then he had to go to Syria, where the situation on the ground is more complex, for at least three reasons: first, Turkey does not fully understand the involvement of the Kurds; second, the training of local opposition forces have not proved successful; Third, the Sunni Arab countries should encourage fighting Isis actually remain tepid, because for them it is more important to counter the Shiite threat posed by the alliance between Assad and Iran. But the campaign of attacks launched by ISIS in Europe, precisely a result of the defeats suffered in the Middle East, has changed the situation, prompting Paris to demand acceleration.
Neutralize the central
direct contacts between the French and American intelligence came soon after the massacre of Nice, and continued yesterday. The transalpine agents are convinced that everything originates in Raqqa, where there is a control center, political and technological. This is the starting orders for foreign fighters returned to Europe, or their sympathizers, to organize and should launch the attacks. Here, though, the propaganda used to recruit the ‘lone wolves’, like the one that hit Thursday night, or as one who had assaulted the club Pulse is also produced and sent around the world Orlando. Perhaps in these cases there is a direct connection and organic, but the effect is still to push the sympathizers to autonomous action.
The offensive to resume Raqqa would not be conducted by sending large Western contingent, but would rely on Sunni Arab forces and Kurdish in the region, helped by aviation, intelligence and Western special forces. The risk you run advancing towards the capital of the Caliphate is to activate sleeper cells in many European countries, or in other regions, but according to the French is a price that you have to accept, because the alternative is to remain firm in undergo the next international Isis offensive attacks.
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