126 Islamist “Foreign Terrorist Fighters” residing in Austria

126 “Foreign Terrorist Fighters” known to the state security authorities – persons who had travelled or wanted to travel abroad in order to join a terrorist organisation there as fighters or at least supporters – were residing in Austria at the end of 2020. This is the result of the answer given by Interior Minister Karl Nehammer ( Austrian People’s Party/ÖVP) to a parliamentary question by the Freedom Party (FPÖ).As is well known, the Vienna assassin, who killed four passers-by in the downtown area on November 2, 2020, before being shot dead by the police, also belonged to this group. The North Macedonian-Austrian citizen wanted to travel to Syria in autumn 2018 to join the radical Islamist terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS), but was arrested in Turkey, deported to Austria and sentenced to 22 months in prison for terrorist association in Vienna at the beginning of 2019, from which he was released conditionally early in December 2019. His travel companion, who had been arrested together with him in Turkey, has been in pre-trial detention in Vienna since last November on charges of possible complicity.Of the 126 known “Foreign Terrorist Fighters” residing in Austria, 49 have Austrian citizenship. Six others are dual nationals, holding both Austrian and German citizenship. The competent provincial offices for the protection of the constitution and counter-terrorism (LVT) have applied for their citizenship to be revoked; according to Nehammer, the corresponding procedures are underway.A total of 334 “Foreign Terrorist Fighters” are known by name to the domestic state security authorities (as of December 2020). Among these persons, 72 have died – presumably mainly in combat operations. At last count, 104 of them were being wanted or their whereabouts had not been clarified.

https://www.oe24.at/newsfeed/terrorismus-126-foreign-terrorist-fighters-leben-in-oesterreich/464992973

Germany, Austria blanketed in massive snowfall after ‘climate experts’ predicted no more snow

Meteorologists in Europe are assuming heavy snowfall that will affect all of Germany by the end of the month. These predictions go against the “models” of climate alarmists.

Polar vortex brings us the Ice Age: down to -25 degrees and permafrost in Germany’s cold triangle – This was the recent headline of the mainstream news magazine Focus announced on its online portal.

On these frosty winter days, the forecast of an alarmist climate researcher Mojib Latif from the year 2000 comes to mind. Latif, who is still a welcome guest of the mainstream media to this day when it comes to conjuring up the global climate catastrophe, warned at the time: “Winter with heavy frost and a lot of snow like twenty years ago will no longer exist in our latitudes.”

Because of the greenhouse effect in Central and Northern Europe there will be more westerly winds in the future, rainy and mild winters can be expected, Latif continued. The Hamburg “climate expert” came up with this gloomy prophecy over 20 years ago. The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, which was in charge in Germany and advised the federal government, among others, made a similar statement.

But since the turn of the millennium, there have been various cold winters with heavy snowfalls in Germany and Central Europe, with the year 2021 marking a frosty climax. But some scientists who, with the help of dubious climate models, want to convince us that the average temperatures on earth by the end of the century will be much warmer.

At least 20 people have died after heavy snowfall continued to batter Europe. Bad weather has closed down schools, disrupted traffic and hampered power supplies in many areas.

Over the past week, six people died in the Austrian federal states of Salzburg and Vorarlberg, with many still stuck in their homes, roads blocked and many regions left without electricity. In Austria, as well as in Germany and Italy, a second level of avalanche danger has been declared.

And during this recent cold spell, modern electrical machines and wind turbines were susceptible to failure in freezing temperatures. Only a few days into the double-digit minus range, the highly praised modern electrical technology had quickly reached its limits. The energy turnaround prescribed by the Green establishment in Germany for example, regarding wind, solar power, electromobility and bio-mass, soon demonstrated that it can at best be used as an additional option for generating energy and only under ideal conditions.

It appears to be more of a symbolic gesture for high-earning eco-hipsters, old leftists and do-gooders, than a genuine energy option.

The expensive electric buses in Berlin all came to a halt in the cold. Nonetheless, the Senate there is sticking to its plan to convert the entire fleet to this unreliable means of transport by 2030. For better or for worse, pure ideology is prescribed – no matter how useless it is in the harsh reality.

The propellers for wind turbines also quickly froze in colder conditions – and they were therefore unusable. It is just one of the many ecological and technical challenges that are currently facing green energy. Because of this, old-fashioned fuel-powered helicopters had to take to the air to keep the sensitive high-tech ready for operation by dispensing lots of chemicals and hot water. This toxic mix then seeped into the forest floor.

The image of the snowy A2 highway in Germany circulated on social networks and spoke volumes about how a 50-year-old Unimog truck had to tow away a sinfully expensive Tesla whose battery had failed in cold conditions.

And many European countries no longer have the management staff in order to cope with such catastrophic situations at all. All the Green left-wing state politicians who are trained in sociology, law and gender sciences.

Conversely, what do regions do where it can be 50 degrees below zero or more in winter – such as in Siberia? There the admittedly far less effeminate residents, those responsible and their administrations rely on ancient coal, or nuclear power plants, briquette heating, self-knitted woollen sweaters and old diesel trucks.

And somehow they get along very well with this simple, but highly functional low-tech machines, especially under difficult winter conditions. They have the tried and tested old-school equipment and practical and hands-on citizens. There, no one is afraid of a few cold nights.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/12/germany-austria-italy-blanketed-in-massive-snowfall-after-climate-experts-predicted-no-more-snow/

Fourteen arrested in Germany, Denmark over attack plots

German and Danish authorities announced on Thursday (Feb 11) they had arrested 14 people over alleged attack plots, including three Syrian brothers accused of planning an attack with several kilos of explosive chemicals.

Denmark’s intelligence service PET, announced a total of 14 people had been arrested, including one in Germany, during a targeted operation, focusing on the Copenhagen area.

Seven of the suspects arrested in Denmark had already been remanded in custody.

PET did not provide details of the suspects, but said in a statement that seven people had been remanded in custody for having “planned one or more terror attacks or having participated in attempted terror acts”.

More specificially, the arrested were suspected of having “gathered ingredients and components for the manufacture of explosive materials, as well as weapons or having helped”.

The other six were also connected to the same case and would go before a court on Thursday, which would decide if they could also be kept in custody.

“It is still PET’s assessment that the terror threat against Denmark is serious, and that this concrete matter does not change this assessment,” the intelligence service said in the statement.

Meanwhile, German prosecutors offered more details into three of the suspects, who were brothers from Syria.

The Syrian men aged 33, 36 and 40 were charged with planning a serious act of violence endangering the state, according to prosecutors in the town of Naumburg in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state.

“In January of this year, they are alleged to have been involved in the purchase of several kilogrammes of chemicals that can be used to manufacture explosive devices,” they said.

Two of the suspects were arrested in the Danish operation, where the chemicals were also seized, while the third was arrested in the German state of Hesse.

Police also seized 10 kilogrammes of gunpowder and fuses at an address in the town of Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt, the prosecutors said.

The three men are brothers, according to a report in Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly, which also said police found an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag at the Dessau address.

The chemicals – sulphur and aluminium powder – had been ordered by the 33-year-old from Denmark to be delivered to the address of his 36-year-old brother in Dessau, Der Spiegel said.

The 36-year-old was not found at his address but police also found more ISIS propaganda, it said.

People with ties to ISIS have committed several violent attacks in Germany in recent years, with the worst a ramming attack at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12.

Since 2013, the number of Islamists considered dangerous in Germany has increased fivefold to 615, according to security services.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/three-syrians-arrested-in-europe-over-attack-plot