(AFP) Italian police said Friday they had arrested a Bangladesh citizen suspected of belonging to a Pakistani Al-Qaeda-linked group who was studying military tactics and publishing incendiary videos online.
Police in Genoa said the man, who described himself on Facebook as an “Al-Qaeda lover,” had posted videos and messages online “inciting terrorist actions or acts of intolerance toward other communities.”
The suspect and his contacts “are part of an intercontinental network subservient to the logic of Al-Qaeda, having as its objective the propaganda of violent redemption in the name of an intolerant jihadist Salafism,” wrote police in a statement.
