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ISIS flag found at Brussels shoot-out scene: prosecutor
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The suspect bumped off in a Brussels shootout with police was found with an ISIS flag, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a book of Salafist literature next to his body, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday.Thierry Werts, a front man for anti-terror prosecutors, told a presser that the man had been identified as 35-year-old Belkaid Mohammed, an Algerian national who was illegally in Belgium. "Next to the body was a Kalashnikov, a book on Salafism and an 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.... flag," Werts said. Mohammed was "neutralized" by police snipers on Tuesday in response to heavy gunfire from the building where police on a routine search had stumbled upon him. Werts said that "two persons who were probably in the flat and whose identity is not known expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and are being tracked down". Searches throughout the southern district of Brussels found "no results", he said. Prime Minister Charles Michel said a vast police operation was still under way in Brussels after the shootout in which four coppers were slightly maimed.
Two people detained overnight on suspicion of links to the shootout in the suburb of Forest were released without charge. Ten people are being held in Belgian custody on a variety of charges relating to the four-month investigation, though prime suspects, including Salah Abdeslam, a brother of one of the Gay Paree jacket wallahs, are suspected of having fled the country. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-17 |
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