2017 Has Seen a Terror Attack Attempted in Europe Every Nine Days - Raheem Kassam and Victoria Friedman

by Raheem Kassam and Victoria Friedman

Europe, the United Kingdom, and Russia have witnessed terror attacks or attempted attacks every nine days in 2017 on average, analysis of security incidents has revealed.

Since January, around 45 people have been killed by mostly Islamic terrorists, while hundreds have been injured. The only known incident not linked to jihadism in 2017 was the attack on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team by a Russian-German national attempting to profit from short-selling stock in the company.

Attacks and attempted attacks have taken place in Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and Germany.

Security services in Britain — population 65 million — are known to be tracking 3,500 potential terror suspects or persons posing a threat. Meanwhile Belgium, with its population of just 12 million, is tracking around 18,000 potential jihadists.

A further minimum of 14 terror attacks have occurred in Turkey in 2017, a NATO member country currently being considered for European Union membership.

Details:

Date	Location	Result	Attacker profile	Name	Fate of Attacker
20 January 2017	Austria	foiled	18-year-old was an Austrian citizen of a migrant background		arrested
3 February 2017	Paris, France	executed	Egyptian national on tourist visa	Abdullah Reda Refaie al-Hamahmy	arrested
10 February 2017	Paris, France	foiled		Four arrests including 16y/o girl	arrested
18 March 2017	Garges-lès-Gonesse and Orly Airport Paris, France	attempted	Radicalised French-born Muslim of North African origin	Ziyed Ben Belgacem	dead
22 March 2017	Westminster, London	executed	British. Muslim convert	Khalid Masood	dead
23 March 2017	Antwerp, Belgium	attempted	Tunisian national	Mohamed R.	arrested
30 March 2017	Venice, Italy	foiled	Three adults from Kosovo	Three men and an unidentified minor	arrested
3 April 2017	St. Petersburg, Russia	executed	Ethnic Uzbek, Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen	Akbarzhon Jalilov	dead
7 April 2017	Stockholm, Sweden	executed	Uzbek failed asylum seeker	Rakhmat Akilov	apprehended
8 April 2017	Grønland, Oslo, Norway	foiled	17y/o Russian citizen. Asylum seeker (arrived 2010). MEDIA CLAIM was known to Norwegian security services for having expressed support for Islamic State	unnamed (underage)	arrested
11 April 2017	Dortmund, Germany	attempted	An Iraqi (Abdul Beset A) linked to Islamic State arrested, but later found to not be related to the attack. On 21 April, Sergej W., a market trader, was arrested.	Sergej W. Joint Russian-German national	arrested
18 April 2017	Marseille, France	foiled	Plot against at least two candidates in the French presidential election	two arrests`	arrested
20 April 2017	Champs Élysées, Paris, France	executed	39-year-old gunman known to intelligence services as an Islamist. French national.	Karim Cheurfi/Abu-Yusuf al-Baljiki (“the Belgian” identified via Amaq)	dead
18 May 2017	Milan, Italy	executed	Half-Tunisian, half-Italian radicalised. Not on a terror watch list, but known to police for criminality	Ismail Tommaso Ben Yousef Hosni, 21	arrested
22 May 2017	Manchester Arena, Manchester	executed	tbc	One (unnamed) male	dead

Raheem Kassam and Victoria Friedman

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/23/2017-seen-terror-attack-attempted-europe-every-nine-days/

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