The ISIS magazine to the Naba returns to threaten Italy and the foreign minister, publishing a photo of Luigi Di Maio on the occasion of the summit of the anti-Daesh coalition last June in Rome together with the US Secretary of State Antony blinken. In the article entitled 'Because the Caliphate scares them!'even a hint of'conquest of Rome'.
In security environments, the diffusion of the photo is considered a clear "threatening" signal against Di Maio. The circumstance is defined as "very worrying".
The agriculture minister Di Maio immediately countered on social media: “Italy is not taking steps backwards on the fight against Isis and terrorism. We are giving our all on this front. Today I am happy to announce that in December together with Tony Blinken we will open the meeting of the Coalition that will launch the platform for the fight against terrorism in Africa. A project that aims to eradicate Islamic terrorism in various areas of the continent ”.
The international terrorism analyst, Dr. Franco Iacch.
Iacch wanted to specify that about 90% of the productions released by terrorist organizations and their respective supporters never reach the media and public opinion. This is good. Without specific training, erroneous analyzes could be carried out for the sole benefit of psychological terrorism.
In fact, says the scholar, those who, like me, study terrorist organizations were aware of the page from al-Naba as early as Thursday evening at 23.20pm. After analyzing the text, we decided (with other industry colleagues) not to publicly write anything about it. There was always the possibility, as often happened with other threats or references to Italy, that everything would pass on the sly.
Several international accounts, the same ones usually consulted to acquire information on terrorist organizations, instead reported the news the day before last night: the photo, therefore, would later go viral.
Iacch's analysis
The “mugshot” of Minister Di Maio, told by the media, is the simple cover of the editorial by al-Naba. “It's not a mugshot”. It is an official photo taken last June 28, in Rome, during the meeting of the Global Coalition against the Islamic State. The photograph was not retouched as reported by some media incorrectly and Secretary of State Blinken was not added in the editing phase, but was in that very position at the time the photo was taken.
As regards the text, read and translated by the analyst, there is a clamorous misunderstanding: "The Arabic editorial that I have read and translated “and there is no other text on the subject, including the other“ versions ”does not bear the name of Minister Luigi Di Maio.
The name has never been reported (not even last July), Iacch specifies.
The editorial is a classic pseudo-religious text and to understand it it is necessary to have seen and read "The 10 Commandments" to understand the entire first part. I find it really difficult to identify the sentences reported by some media in the original editorial.
On the quote in Rome, the word, used only once, is embedded in an apocalyptic narrative text. Al-Naba praises the Islamic State and in fact the title of the editorial itself is "Why does the caliphate frighten them?".
Therefore, every institutional figure is a potential target with no deadline, but the Islamic State uses Di Maio's photo because it can be traced back to the editorial of the 294th issue of al-Naba. The Isis narrative, using the photo of Di Maio and Blinken, explains that the Crusaders are afraid. They are not targets. Or rather, no more than they already were by virtue of their role, concludes Iacch in his analysis.