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| Brussels bomber IDed as Islamic State jailer | |
| 2016-04-23 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Najim Laachraoui, one of the Brussels airport jacket wallahs, has been identified by several Frenchies held hostage by 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.... in Syria as one of their prison guards, sources close to the investigation said. According to one of the sources, four French journalists kidnapped in Syria in 2013 and 2014 had identified a guard known as "Abou Idriss." One of these journalists, Nicolas Henin, "formally identified" Abou Idriss as Najim Laachraoui, said his lawyer Marie-Laure Ingouf, confirming reports in French newspapers. Laachraoui also briefly worked as a cleaner at the European Parliament several years ago. He was one of two suicide bombers at Brussels airport on March 22 in coordinated attacks that also struck a metro station in the city, killing 32 people overall. For five years until 2012, Laachraoui "worked... at Brussels airport", Phlegmish-language VTM reported, adding that he had been recruited by a temp agency. It did not provide details about the kind of work Laachraoui was to have carried out there, but said that airport staff are usually subject to a security check before being given access badges. There has been no official confirmation of the report. Traces of Laachraoui’s DNA have been found at a Brussels apartment where the suicide belts for the Brussels attacks were made. The 24-year-old one-time electrical engineering student is also suspected of being the bomb-maker for last November’s Gay Paree attacks that left 130 people dead. Both attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State group. On April 6, the European Parliament said one of the bombers had held a summer cleaning job at its Brussels headquarters in 2009 and 2010. Speaking to AFP, a source close to the inquiry named that person as Laachraoui. Belgian prosecutors believe Laachraoui went to Syria in February 2013 where he joined IS. He resurfaced last September, two months before the Gay Paree carnage, when he was stopped by police on the Austria-Hungary border. He was using the false identity of Soufiane Kayal and was travelling with Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving Gay Paree attacks suspect.
...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.... itself has also identified Laachraoui as Abou Idriss in the latest edition of its magazine, Dabiq, saying he "prepared the explosives for the two raids in Gay Paree and Brussels". The former kidnapped Frenchies have already identified two Frenchies as being among their jailers when they were held in Syria. One, Mehdi Nemmouche, is in jug accused of killing four people in an attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014. The other is Salim Benghalem, who has been sentenced in absentia in La Belle France for recruiting for IS and is listed as a "foreign terrorist combatant" by the United States. | |
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