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France Detains Man Suspected Of Wanting To Join Syria Radicals
2013-07-25
[AnNahar] A man suspected of wanting to fight alongside radical Salafist tough guys in Syria was locked away
Please don't kill me!
in La Belle France as part of an anti-terrorist operation, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

The unidentified 47-year-old was visiting his family near the eastern city of Belfort when he was taken in for questioning Tuesday by intelligence officers, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.

The detention comes just days after a woman in the Netherlands was placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
on suspicion of recruiting people to fight alongside Death Eaters in Syria, amid growing concern about young Dutch Moslems being enlisted for the conflict.

As many as 600 Europeans -- including 92 from La Belle France -- may have joined rebel forces in Syria since early 2011, according to research by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London.

The man lives in the southwestern city of Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
, the source said, without giving further details.

According to La Belle France Bleu local radio, he could be close to "two brothers from Toulouse, whose videos were posted last week on YouTube", with one of them calling on French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
"to convert to Islam".

The radio posted a statement on its website from a witness who said the man was detained while he was in a car.

"Twenty balaclava-clad men came from everywhere, armed to the teeth," he said.

"In the passenger seat was a relatively elderly woman, a woman, who had a scarf on her head, but not like a burqa or a niqab. In the driver's seat was a man with a beard and longish hair."
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  According to France Bleu local radio, he could be close to "two brothers from Toulouse, whose videos were posted last week on YouTube", with one of them calling on French President Francois Hollande "to convert to Islam".

Indeed a difficult road. Usually requires name changes, renouncements, crotch salutes, frequent travel, dubious alliances, bowing, "senseless scandals", and the like.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-07-25 03:57  

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