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France Teacher's Killer Had 'Contact' with Jihadist in Syria, 7 charged with complicity
[AnNahar] The man who decapitated a teacher in France for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class had been in contact with a Russian-speaking jihadist in Syria, a source close to the case said on Thursday.

Seven people have been charged with complicity after 18-year-old Chechen Abdullakh Anzorov killed Samuel Paty on Friday, including two teenagers who helped him identify the teacher.

The identity of the jihadist in Syria has not yet been established, the source told AFP.

Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday that Anzorov's presumed contact had been located through an IP address traced back to Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria.
Idlib — that sounds like an Al Qaeda link...
The Times of Israel adds:
The teenagers pointed out Paty to his killer in return for 300-350 euros ($356-$414).



Ex-UFC fighter Zelim Imadaev uses social media to praise Chechen refugee for beheading
[FoxNews] Controversial former UFC fighter Zelim Imadaev praised the Chechen refugee responsible for the beheading of a French history teacher last week in a post on social media, reports say.

The 25-year-old Russian fighter posted an Instagram story calling the 18-year-old suspect a "hero of Islam," asking that "Allah approve your jihad," according to Bloody Elbow.

The attacker, who had been living in La Belle France after being granted 10-year residency as a refugee in March, was later rubbed out by police. Investigators say he was armed with a knife and airsoft gun. Prosecutors also allege that a text claiming responsibility and photo of the victim were found on the attacker’s phone.

The UFC said in a statement to Bloody Elbow on Monday that Imadaev "was released from his contract earlier this summer and is no longer a member of the promotion’s roster."

Imadaev has lost all three of his UFC matches, with the most recent loss coming against Michael Pereira on Sept. 5. He’s made headlines after he slapped Pereira during their face off before the fight.

ISIS Magazine Publishes Photo of French Teacher’s Head, Calls for More Attacks on Free Expression
[HomelandSecurityToday] A new issue of the ISIS magazine that in recent weeks encouraged the murder of those accused of blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
 contains a full-page graphic urging more attacks and showing the severed head of the French teacher killed Friday.

Abdullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen with a minor criminal history who had lived in La Belle France from the age of 6, traveled 60 miles from the Normandy town of Évreux to the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. He had no connection to Paty and reportedly asked students outside of the school to identify the teacher. Anzorov then followed Paty as he walked home from work, stabbing and beheading him with a 12-inch knife.

Before police arrived at the scene, Anzorov uploaded video and photos of the attack to other ISIS supporters. A Twitter post attributed to Anzorov included a severed head photo and stated, "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. From Abdullah, the Servant of Allah, To Macron, the leader of the infidels, I executed one of your hellhounds who dared to belittle Mohammed, calm his fellows before you are inflicted harsh punishment."

Anzorov was shot to death by police after he reportedly fired an airgun at officers and tried to stab them.

In August, an English-language monthly magazine produced by ISIS supporters urged followers to "race" to emulate the Charlie Hebdo attack, arguing that governments aren’t doing enough to punish those viewed by the terror group as blasphemers.

"The Voice of Hind," released online by ISIS supporters in India, subsequently responded swiftly to the Gay Paree attacks with a full-page graphic on the last page of the newest issue released today.

"If your freedom of expression doesn’t stop you from criticizing prophet Muhammad PTUI! then our swords will not stop defending the honour of prophet Muhammad PTUI!," the image said, with a cutout photo of Paty’s head below a graphic of a sword.

The magazine’s earlier issue told Moslems that "the governments you live under are providing full support and protection to every person who attacks our beloved prophet, under the pretext of freedom of expression."

The article then called the 2015 Charlie Hebdo mass shooting, in which brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi killed 12 people at the satirical magazine’s offices, attack an operation "with Faith and riffles [sp]" to "wreak havoc in the broad daylight to avenge the Messenger (PTUI!) for being abused by this newspaper."

The Kouachis and "all those brothers who come out" to attack accused blasphemers are "leaving a clear path for others to follow," the magazine stated, as "we cannot expect the disbelieving and apostate governments to carry out the punishment for the blasphemy prescribed by Islam." That punishment, the article continued, is "nothing but death," and followers should "race to one another to carry out this obligation."

"If we do not become forceful, then the assaults on our religion... will continue," the text stated, calling on supporters to "take Dire Revenge on each and every one who has insulted our beloved Messenger (PTUI!)."

Subsequently, on Sept. 11, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
 issued a message calling on Moslems living in La Belle France to conduct attacks, referencing the Charlie Hebdo attack.

AQAP claimed the 2015 attack. Fourteen suspects accused of aiding the Kouachis’ plot went on trial last month.

Samuel Paty, 47, received death threats on social media after his recent class studying freedom of expression in the context of the Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
 Muhammad cartoons. The history teacher had asked Moslem students to leave the room before he showed the caricatures so that they would not be offended. One Moslem student stayed and told her parents, who filed a complaint against Paty; the father posted a video on social media railing against Paty, stating the school’s address, and calling for "mobilization" against the teacher.

Defying Islamists, Giant Image of Mohammed Projected onto French Government Building After Beheading



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