|
France's 'chief Islamic State group recruiter' goes on trial
[FRANCE24] The trial for La Belle France's alleged top recruiter for the 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.... (IS) group started Tuesday in Gay Paree. Salim Benghalem's trial will be conducted in absentia, as the suspect is believed to be in Syria. Six other alleged gunnies accused of being part of Benghalem's terror network will also stand trial in Gay Paree. The trial will last until December 7, 2015. French authorities said Benghalem, 35, was the leader of the so-called Buttes-Chaumont terrorist network that included Said and Cherif Kouachi, the brothers responsible for the deadly Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...terrorist attack in January. He has also been linked to Mehdi Nemmouche, the gunman suspected of opening fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people in May 2014. His wife, who left Syria with their children, has told Sherlocks that he would return to La Belle France only to carry out an attack. She has said he believed bombs were not enough, that "a series of killings is recommended." The US State Department said in 2014 that he was an executioner for the IS group and listed him as a 'foreign terrorist fighter'. Cannabis smoker Benghalem's descent into extremism has shocked his friends and family. As a young man, Benghalem reportedly went out most nights with friends to meet girls, drink alcohol and smoke cannabis. One of his childhood friends said: "He liked to crack jokes and was fun-loving." Benghalem spent his formative years drifting from one job to another: supermarket cashier, electrician, and supervisor in a dining hall. His family acknowledged back in 2014 that he had travelled to Syria to pursue "an ideal of justice", but was "definitely not an executioner". Jailed after gang killing Benghalem life seems to have taken a turn for the worse back in 2001, when he fled La Belle France for Algeria, from where his family originates, after being accused of murder and attempted murder for a gangland fight. He remained in contact with his family before finally returning to La Belle France in 2002, when he was tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and served time in prison. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-02 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=437302 |