Terrorist Caught Re-Entering Italy

All those people migrating into Europe don't present any danger do they?  They're just looking for a better life than they had back home, or maybe are just trying to get away from poverty, you know.  They couldn't possibly constitute a security threat or in any way be involved with terrorism, could they?  I mean, to even consider such things would be xenophobic, islamophobic, or even racist, wouldn't it?

OK, enough sarcasm.  If you think that none of those migrants could have anything to do with terrorism, you'd be wrong.  From The Independent:

Fears that Islamic terror groups might be entering Europe on migrant boats appear to have been confirmed after police in Sicily identified a convicted terrorist among asylum seekers arriving from Libya.

The Tunisian, Ben Nasr Mehdi, was first arrested in Italy in November 2007 and sentenced to seven years for planning terror attacks for a group that has since been linked to Isis. After his release from the high-security Benevento prison in southern Italy, he was expelled from the country.

But it has emerged that he has attempted to enter Italy again, following his arrest last month by Italian authorities after arriving at the island of Lampedusa, off Sicily. He was among 200 migrants rescued at sea by a navy vessel on 4 October.

Oh, he's just one, you might say.  But that's the problem.  Just one terrorist was caught, at least in part because he was already known to the Italian authorities.  How many others who mean to do harm are aboard those boats from Tunisia or Libya?  Read the full story.