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Hundreds of migrants arriving in Norway had mobile phones containing images of executions, severed heads and dead children, police reveal mobile phones. The revelation comes amid heightened fears that ISIS is exploiting the migrant crisis to smuggle fighters into Europe, following last month’s attacks in Paris. Police admitted that the ‘explosion’ of refugees crossing into the country over the summer and in recent months
Reporter Nick Fagge bought an identical false Syrian passport as part of an investigation into the illegal printing of Syrian identity documents
Norway Hundreds of asylumseekers entering Norway
were discovered to have images of ‘executions’ and ‘severed heads’ on their
Terrorists jailed for life after police found beheading videos on computer memory sticks Sweden A Swedish court has jailed two men to life in jail on terror charges after police found footage linking them to two beheadings in Syria in
2013. The Goteborg District Court ruled that not only were Hassan Mostafa alMandlawi, 32, and 30-yearold Sultan al-Amin, involved in the killings but that the Continued on Page 2
Fears are growing that ISIS is using the migrant crisis to sneak jihadists into Europe, a mounted policeman leads a group of refugees and migrants near Dobova, Slovenia
Hassan Mostafa al-Mandlawi
meant that security checks were less thorough than required, and weren’t checking the background of those entering the country. The Police Immigration Service (PU) in Norway has been forced to work
overtime and under severe pressure due to the massive numbers of asylum-seekers hoping to take refuge in the country. But after searching belongings and mobile phones belonging to
refugees and migrants crossing the border, police discovered ‘hundreds’ of examples of ‘photos and videos of executions and brutal punishments, such as images of people Continued on Page 2
Obama on ISIS: We will ‘squeeze its heart’ Washington President Barack Obama somberly delivered the United States’ progress report in the fight against ISIS today in a year-end update on the war with brutal terrorist group, which he said continues
to be a ‘difficult fight. We are hitting ISIL harder than ever,’ he said. The U.S. and its coalition partners
are ‘increasing the pace of their strikes’ and dropped more bombs on the group in November than any other month since the airstrikes began. The U.S. is targeting ISIS at its core in Iraq and Syria, Obama said, ‘Because as we
squeeze its heart, it will make it harder for ISIL to pump its terror propaganda to the rest of the world.’
Reading from prepared text, Obama ticked off the names of ISIS leaders who had been eliminated this year - Mohammed Emwazi, better known as Jihadi John, Abu Sayya, a top leader of the group, Hajji Mutazz, ISIS’ second-incommand. ‘We’re going after ISIL from their stronghold right in downtown Raqqa to Libya,’ he said. ‘The point is ISIL leaders cannot hide, and our next message to them is simple: you are next.’ The coalition has also launched ‘new attacks on their life line,’ Obama said, referring to the group’s oil supply, and has reduced the amount of territory it controls in Iraq by 40 percent. ‘And it will lose more,’ he said. The terror
network has also ‘lost thousands of square miles of territory it once controlled in Syria,’ he said, ‘and it will lose more.’ In total, the United States and its partners have
dropped 9,000 bombs on ISIS. ‘Meanwhile, more people are seeing ISIL for the thugs and the thieves and the killers that they are,’ he declared. Obama acknowledged that
successes have been buttressed with challenges. ‘This continues to be a difficult fight. As I said before, ISIL has dug in including Continued on Page 2