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Single IS group plot behind string of French, Belgian attacks: Prosecutor
[AlAhram] The Gay Paree and Brussels attacks, a botched shooting on a high-speed train and a foiled plot in Belgium may have all been part of one big 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.... group operation, Belgium's federal prosecutor said Monday. Speaking on the second anniversary of the November 13 Gay Paree attacks, chief prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw confirmed for the first time what Sherlocks have been saying privately about the possible links. "We indeed realise that Verviers, Thalys, November 13 and the March 22 attacks may have been one big operation by ISIS," the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, Van Leeuw told Belgian radio. Verviers is a city in French-speaking Belgium where an armed police raid on January 15, 2015 -- shortly after an attack on the Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...magazine in Gay Paree -- led to the dismantling of a cell suspected of plotting to attack the police. The investigation found that the Verviers cell was directed from abroad by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Moroccan Belgian who fought for IS in Syria and played a key role in the November 13 Gay Paree attacks before he was killed by a French police raid days later. Abaaoud is also believed to have ordered the botched attack by Moroccan gunman Ayoub El Khazzani on the high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Gay Paree on August 21, 2015. Three men linked to Abaaoud were charged in the last few weeks in La Belle France and Belgium in connection with the Thalys attack. "We have to dig," Van Leeuw said, adding the investigations were getting harder as detectives no longer had access to some telephone data. Investigators said the November 13 gun and kabooms in Gay Paree showed that they were largely organised from Belgium by Abaaoud's network who were acting on orders from the IS high command in Syria and Iraq. The attacks cost the lives of 130 people. Investigators said other members believed to have been from the same Belgian-French cell carried out the March 22, 2016 suicide kabooms in Belgium that killed 32 people. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-14 |
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