Too hastily someone said with the death of Bin Laden that the terrorist phenomenon was destined to end in a short time. A few months later, in fact, the situation belied the optimistic forecasts and there was talk of ISIS as the Al Qaeda mother of terrorism of the third millennium.
The Islamic State, meanwhile, consolidates its positions in Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. in Libya. In particular, it seems to have control over ever larger areas. Rome was immediately indicated as a symbol of Christianity, capital of an enemy nation and not just because it is the seat of the Vatican.
An organizational structure is that of ISIS that immediately proved to be managed by third-generation terrorists, educated and experienced people in the use of modern technologies and modern social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, through which they immediately began to coordinate in real time.
Modern IT platforms, in fact, constitute for the new terrorists the means through which to concert actions and act as a sounding board to acquire consensus and connect among themselves the thousands of Western citizens of Islamic religion who over time enlist in the troops of the Caliphate, to then return after shorter periods to the countries of residence, prepared and ready to take action if necessary.
Not solitary wolves or crazed splinters as too many times have been defined with simplistic analyzes, but representatives of a new structured leadership, militarily prepared and able to manage in a coordinated way subversive actions articulated in particular with the aim of engaging several fronts and at the same time forces of States security.
People who until shortly before the end of last year were connected through a structured and articulated network. Messages on Twitter, coded messages exchanged on FB and also hosted on Western platforms such as the Italian sitehttp://justpaste.it/, where for dozens of days have been reported proclamations, films and even techniques for the construction of IED.
A proliferation of messages that suddenly faded and almost canceled out. A worrying quiet that perhaps foreshadowed the approach of a storm, which the events in Paris make as real as ever and which in all probability will be destined to expand, going beyond the French borders.
The Kouachi brothers who carried out the massacre in the Parisian editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and Amedy C. who killed the Parisian policewoman shortly after in Montrouge, fought in Syria and are part of the same jihadist cell, the Buttes-Chaumont that takes the name of a Parisian park where jihadists ready to leave for the war in Iraq gathered.
The brothers are, at the time of writing, barricaded in a small French factory and at the same time Amedy took Jewish hostages south of Paris. They are negotiating at the same time engaging the security forces and the French intelligence, certainly not with an improvised action, rather planned and perhaps also coordinated by someone who does not participate in the action on the field.
Continuing to ignore such apparently random signals could cost a lot in terms of human lives. The facts of Paris show that the terrorist structure is rebuilding itself and, as was foreseeable, it is no longer entrusted to the management of "imported" Islamic extremists, but to European citizens who have espoused jihad and who could represent the reference points for the laborers who certainly flows through uncontrolled migratory flows.
Now the sectoral analysis can no longer guarantee a defense against the global terrorist threat, rather it must proceed by trying to link together even distant events that may occur simultaneously.
In Paris they shot themselves in the city while a car bomb exploded in Sana and the Boko Harams destroyed 19 villages in Nigeria with more than 2000 dead.
Fernando Termentini
