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Caribbean-Latin America
Brazil charges 11 people with trying to set up Islamic State cell
2018-05-18
[Ynet] Brazilian federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with planning to establish an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
cell in Brazil and trying to recruit jihadists to send to Syria, according to a court filing seen by Rooters on Thursday.

Police tracked the alleged Islamic State holy warriors through their social media messages after Spain's Guardia Civil provided telephone numbers found on a Brazilian tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in Spain for belonging to a jihadist group there.

In one WhatsApp chat group, some of the Brazilian suspects discussed plans to copy last year's London Bridge attack during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro or Salvador to kill as many people as possible, the document said.

Two of the Brazilians are being held in a maximum-security prison and five others, arrested since October, were freed pending trial, said a front man for the prosecutors office for the state of Goias in central Brazil that filed the charges.
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