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French police arrest another kid suspected of plotting attack
2016-09-15
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French police on Wednesday incarcerated
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a 15-year old suspected of planning an attack and using encrypted social media channels to communicate with a French Islamist holy warrior believed to be in Syria or Iraq, sources said.

In an operation led by La Belle France’s domestic intelligence agency, police swooped on the teenager in Gay Paree’ eastern 20th arrondissement. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed the operation.

"We’re working with extreme intensity to identify those we think are likely to carry out an attack," he told news hounds, adding that 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....
was recruiting "younger and younger individuals".

It is the second time a 15-year-old minor suspected of plotting to kill in the name of ISIS has been arrested in five days. A source inside the prosecutor’s office said both youngsters had used Telegram to communicate with Rachid Kassim, an ISIS holy warrior of French nationality.

Their arrests follow the detention of three women, including a 19-year-old, who had allegedly wanted to attack a Gay Paree railway station using a car laden with gas cylinders.

La Belle France is reeling from a wave of holy warrior attacks on its territory that have killed more than 230 people since January, 2015, and its intelligence services are struggling to dismantle a web of holy warrior networks inside the country.

The attacks have varied in style and profile of killer: In November last year, a squad of jacket wallahs and gunnies killed 130 people in a sophisticated and coordinated attack on multiple sites in Gay Paree; In July, a Tunisian delivery man killed 86 people when he drove his truck through a crowd on Nice’s seafront; and two murderous Moslems knifed to death an elderly priest at his altar in a church in northern La Belle France.

"What sets La Belle France apart (from other European nations) is the wide-open profile of recruit: urban or rural, Moslem or convert, man or woman," said Arnaud Danjean, a European Parliament politician who specializes in defense and security.

"Acts like the attempted attack with gas cylinders, the throat-slitting of a priest, or the guy who ploughs his truck through a crowd, that today is the face of this threat" in La Belle France, said Danjean.

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