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France links beheading, gas plant attack to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... myrmidons. Yassin Salhi was charged and will remain in jug, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said. Filing preliminary charges gives authorities more time for deeper investigation before they decide whether to send the case to trial. Salhi was tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after the attack Friday in southeast La Belle France, which included an kaboom and two light injuries. The assault put the country back on high alert after deadly myrmidon attacks in January. According to his attorney, Salhi said he was acting purely for personal reasons after being reprimanded by his employer. With a long-bladed knife and a gun in hand -- as well as two flags emblazoned with the Moslem declaration of faith -- Salhi tricked his boss into getting into a van, knocked him unconscious and strangled him, prosecutor Francois Molins said. About a quarter of a mile before reaching the plant, Molins said, Salhi decapitated his victim and almost immediately sent two photos of the remains to a friend in Syria: One was a selfie and the other an image of the severed head placed carefully on the torso. Then Salhi, a truck driver with a history of radical Islamist ties dating to 2003, drove into the plant filled with flammable gas canisters, Molins said. When he was tackled by firefighters responding to the kaboom and blaze, he cried out " In a subsequent message, the friend, a Frenchie identified as Sebastien Younes who has been in Syria since November, indicated that he was in contact with Islamic State higher-ups about the images. "Yassin Salhi beheaded his victim before hanging his head to the factory fence in an effort to give maximum publicity to his act -- he admitted to it during his interrogation," Molins said. "This bears the trademark of the Islamic State group's propaganda, which regularly calls for terrorist attacks to be carried out in La Belle France and, more specifically, to slit unbelievers' throats." Salhi was seized by firefighters at the Air Products chemicals warehouse. According to Molins, Salhi said he neither remembers beheading his boss nor sending photos. "According to him, his motive was only personal and not terrorist. One does not exclude the other," Molins said. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-01 |
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