ROME, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Italian security forces have arrested an Iraqi asylum seeker for instigation to terrorism, Italian state police said Monday.
The 29-year-old housed at a System for the Protection of Asylum Seekers and Refugees (SPRAR) facility near the southern city of Crotone allegedly urged fellow guests to join the cause of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
He also praised the May 22 suicide bombing at a concert in the British city of Manchester, which claimed 22 lives.
"He instigated (others) to commit acts of violence for Isis terrorist ends," state police tweeted.
"Arrested suspect on phone to sister: I remain in Italy to redeem unbelievers, whose throats should be cut," police wrote in a second tweet.
Italy's terrorism prevention strategy, which has been credited for keeping the country safe from deadly attacks such as those that have plagued Britain, France, and Germany, includes surveillance and deportation of terrorism suspects.
Italy had expelled 52 such suspects as of June 9, according to the interior ministry.
The latest deportee was a 28-year-old Moroccan national who had been living in Italy since 2011, and who had a rap sheet for resisting public officials, threats, robbery, and receiving stolen goods.
Counter-terrorism police spotted him espousing extremist views on social media, picked him up in the northern city of Perugia on June 8, and put him on a plane to the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
This brought to 184 the number of those deported for holding extremist views and being deemed potential threats to national security since January 2015, according to the ministry.
