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Three Syrians arrested in Germany 'linked to Paris attackers'
[DeutscheWelle] The German interior minister has said that three suspected members of IS jugged
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 in Germany are linked to the group that carried out the Gay Paree attacks in 2015. The suspects have been known to authorities for months.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere delivered a statement on Tuesday regarding the arrest of three suspected members of the so-called "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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" ("IS"), saying the suspects had links to the group that carried out the November 2015 terror attacks in Gay Paree.

Specifically, de Maiziere said the three suspects arrested in Germany on Tuesday were smuggled out of Syria by the same smuggling organization used by members of the Gay Paree group.

A statement from Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor's office on Tuesday said that federal police and agents from Germany's GSG 9 special operations unit were involved in pre-dawn raids against the suspects.

The three men arrested in the raids have been identified as Syrian nationals. The prosecutor's office listed their names as Mahir al-H. (17), Mohammed A. (26), and Ibrahim M. (18). The full names of criminal suspects in Germany are usually not released by officials in line with the country's privacy laws.

According to the investigation so far, the three came to Germany in November 2015, with the intention of "carrying out a previously determined order [from IS] or to await further instructions."

De Maiziere said the three "could have been a sleeper cell."

Mahir al-H. is believed to have received training from IS in Raqqa, Syria on how to use weapons and explosives in September 2015. One month later, he and the other two suspects are believed to have agreed on a plan to travel to Europe to carry out operations or attacks outside of IS-controlled areas.

For the purposes of their travel, prosecutors say they were given passports by IS along with cash in US dollars "in a high four-figure sum" and mobile phones pre-loaded with a communications program. The suspects came to Germany from Syria through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 and Greece, the statement said.

De Maiziere said that the documents possessed by the three suspects in Germany came from the same workshop where the documents for the Gay Paree attackers were made.

The prosecutor's office added that the investigation had not yet uncovered any concrete orders or instructions for attacks that had been given to the suspects.

The suspects were arrested in raids carried out in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, where the suspects' residences were also searched.

Over 200 officers from the German Federal Criminal Police Office, the national police force and Schleswig-Holstein state police were involved in the operation.

According to the BKA, authorities have received 415 leads on refugees with a terrorist background, but most have proven to be unfounded. Sixty-three investigative proceedings have been launched based on the information the BKA has received.
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Three Syrians identified only as Mahir Al-H aged 17, Mohamed A, 26, and Ibrahim M, 18, were taken into custody along with their mobile phones and computers.
More arrests to come, and a quiet mapping of connections.
The terror suspects locked away
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 in an asylum seekers home in Schleswig-Holstein arrived in Europe with fake passports crafted for them by ISIS forgers and accompanied by two of the Gay Paree attackers. They landed in mid November aboard a refugee ship which docked at the Greek island of Leros.

Two of their travelling companions killed themselves with suicide bombs outside the Stade de La Belle France stadium in Gay Paree on November 13 last year. Two more conspirators aboard the vessel were arrested in the Austria city of Graz in December.

The suspects were placed under intense surveillance for several months, including bugging their phones and tailing their every move in an operation that cost tens of thousands of pounds.
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