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New Paris Links Emerge as Brussels Manhunt Continues
[AnNahar] Fresh links between the Gay Paree attacks and a bloody anti-terrorism raid in Brussels emerged Thursday as a manhunt continued for two suspected hard boyz who escaped.The firefight on Tuesday, in which an Algerian national with suspected ties 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.... was killed, erupted after Belgian and French police searched a property in connection with the November 13 Gay Paree massacres, claimed by IS. Sources close to the investigation told AFP that the officers visited the apartment believing it was rented under the same false identity as a hideout in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi used by the Gay Paree attackers. In the Charleroi hideout, police had found DNA traces of Gay Paree attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud as well as Chakib Akrouh, both of whom were killed north of the French capital days after the Gay Paree attacks under a hail of police bullets. According to Belgian daily De Standaard, police believe both properties were actually rented by convicted car thief Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, who is on the lam. His brother, Ibrahim El Bakraoui, is also known to authorities and served a nine-year sentence in 2010 after firing on police during a robbery, according to daily La Derniere Heure. Sources close to the investigation told AFP the search on Tuesday was to verify if the El Bakraoui brothers were to be found at the apartment, though expectations were low as water and electric power had been cut off for weeks. According to De Standaard, the two suspects on the run from the firefight Tuesday are not the El Bakraoui brothers, though a front man from the federal prosecutor refused to confirm the information. The Standaard also reported that police found computers with encrypted data and false IDs at the scene of the firefight. "In a stroke of luck, the police fell upon what evidently constitutes the core of a terror cell planning something," researcher Claude Moniquet of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center told AFP. "These are active and heavily armed operators as shown by the presence of 11 Kalashnikov rifle chargers in the apartment," he added. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-18 |
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