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| Terror Networks |
| Drone Strike Kills IS Figures in Syria, Some with Paris Attack Ties |
| 2016-12-14 |
| [AnNahar] A coalition dronezap in Syria killed three 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 leaders involved in plotting foreign attacks, including two men who helped facilitate last year's attacks in Gay Paree, the Pentagon said Tuesday. "The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. They were killed in a December 4 Two of those killed -- Salah-Eddine Gourmat and Sammy Djedou -- were involved in facilitating the November 13, 2015 Gay Paree attacks, in which 130 people died, Cook said. Gourmat was a French national and Djedou, Belgian. Both of them were "close associates" of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, an IS front man and external operations leader who was killed in a coalition The third person killed was Walid Hamman, a Frenchie who Cook said was a suicide-attack planner convicted in absentia in Belgium for a terror plot disrupted in 2015. They were riding together in a vehicle at the time of the dronezap, Pentagon front man Navy Captain Jeff Davis said. All three belonged to a network led by Boubaker al-Hakim, a Tunisian killed in an During last year's IS-claimed attacks in Gay Paree, jacket wallahs and gunnies launched a coordinated assault across the French capital, including at the Bataclan, a concert hall where three attackers killed 90 people during a rock gig. Gourmat had worked on external attacks in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and was involved in the "financial facilitation" of the Gay Paree attacks, Davis said. Djedou took part in plotting Europe attacks, Davis added without giving details about his role in the Gay Paree attacks. Djedou was a close associate of Abdelhamid Abaaoud who led the deadly November 13 attacks in Gay Paree before police gunned him down during a raid days later, according to Belgian broadcaster RTBF. Djedou had left Belgium in 2012 for Syria, where he eventually rose up the Islamic State ranks and helped plan the Gay Paree attacks as well as the attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people in March, RTBF added. Hamman was a "longtime French terrorist" who helped the IS group seize djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , among other operations, Davis said. A French court sentenced an absent Gourmat, then 24, to four years in prison in March 2014 on charges including trying to conduct jihad in Syria. He had been incarcerated Please don't kill me! with two other men in May 2012 at an airport near Saint-Etienne in central La Belle France carrying a revolver, night-vision goggles, camouflage clothing and tactical vests. They had been trying to fly to Gaziantep in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .Gourmat and another of the arrested men claimed they were going on a humanitarian trip. Gourmat, who was not kept in jug ahead of his trial, later fled La Belle France. |
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