Europe's Most-Wanted Jihadist Crossed into EU Disguised as an Asylum-Seeker
A successful tactic the Europeans just can't beat. Are American homeland security leaders paying attention?
By Todd Bensman on May 12, 2020
One of Europe's most wanted jihadists is in custody — the so-called "ISIS Rapper" who once posted a photo of himself holding a severed head in Syria and whose father bombed American embassies in Africa in 1998. Spanish anti-terrorism police cuffed the Egypt-born British subject Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary last month in the southeastern port city of Almeria, where he had been wearing a protective face mask to hide his identity during outings.
Good.
But this event should not pass without emphatic mention of exactly how one of the most sought-after ISIS war criminals was able to successfully return to high-alert Europe from the defeated terrorist group's lost territories in Syria.
European media outlets report that Bary posed as an asylum-seeking migrant and, after a circuitous overland travel route from Syria to North Africa, hired a smuggler in Algeria who ferried him to the Spanish coast, along with other migrants, on a wooden "patera" boat. He was in Spain for five days before Spain's Policia Nacional bagged him with two other suspected jihadists in an apartment, plenty of time for them to have done some damage.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Europes-MostWanted-Jihadist-Crossed-EU-Disguised-AsylumSeeker
