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June 29, 2016The Libyan university researcher stopped last December by the Digos in Palermo accused of making propaganda for jihad , including through the network. Yesterday afternoon, the State Police carried out the measure of detention in custody against Khadiga A. Shabbi, a Libyan citizen, born in 1970, resident in the Albergheria district, for having publicly instigated the commission of more crimes in the matter of terrorism, through IT or telematic tools.

The legal case
The arrest was triggered at the conclusion of the complex judicial procedure, with the confirmation by the Court of Cassation of the provision of the Palermo Review Court. This had annulled the order in which the magistrate had imposed the obligation to stay for the woman and not the custody in prison as requested by the anti-terrorist section of the Palermo DDA.

Who is Shabbi: researcher or aspiring foreign fighters?
In December, Shabbi was arrested as a "sleeper cell" close to the terrorist organization Ansar Al Sharia Libya. Economically supported by a scholarship from the Libyan Embassy in Italy, the woman was enrolled in the research doctorate of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Palermo. Shabbi, a native of Benghazi, seems to be linked to the rebels and other alleged "foreign fighters", scattered throughout Europe, who like her exalt religious radicalism and militias fighting in Libya.

The online survey
At the center of the investigations, Shabbi's web-based activity would have shown his interest in some Islamic militias close to ISIS, shared propaganda photos and videos, and trafficked money with suspects residing in Turkey. All activities that have led the Digos to believe that the woman could in some way offer logistical support to some "foreign fighters".

The Jihad 2.0
Shabbi contributed to the "cause of Jihad" also through the so-called "like" mechanism, which would allow the profiles of ISIS supporters to achieve great visibility, creating a real support network. A sort of Jihad 2.0 in short, built through a widespread dissemination of facebook pages in Arabic and willing to always recruit new supporters.

The militia nephew
Under the lens of the investigators also the woman's attempt to get her nephew to Libya from Italy: a fighter in Libya for the militias close to ISIS, in order to prevent him from being captured by the Libyan regular army. Plan then failed because his nephew would have been killed during a military operation.

"Avenge the death of the person closest to my heart - Shabbi wrote on a page close to the militia - they made me suffer a lot, God must make them suffer. I know I can't do anything but if you need anything from me, I'll do it. " According to the police there would be precisely the death of his nephew, therefore the presence of a "martyr" in the family, at the base of his radicalization. Such a radicalization as to be willing to do anything to support Ansar Al Sharia Libya fighters.