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| Teenage girl among four suspects arrested for 'planning Paris suicide bombing' |
| 2017-02-10 |
| [Yahoo] An “imminent” terror attack has been thwarted in France with the arrest of a group of suspected Isis supporters who were manufacturing explosives for a possible suicide attack. A 16-year-old girl, named locally as Sara, was arrested alongside her 20-year-old boyfriend and two other men aged 26 and 33 near Montpellier on Friday morning. Local reports said the group were suspected of planning a suicide bombing in an unspecified “tourist area” of Paris. Explosives and other equipment were found during searches of a home shared by Sara and her boyfriend, identified only as Thomas. Police discovered 71g of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a powerful explosive widely used by Isis militants, inside a makeshift factory manufacturing the substance. The volatile explosive, known as the “mother of Satan”, was used in the Paris and Brussels attacks, as well as the 2005 London bombings. Isis propaganda magazines have contained instructions on how to make TATP, which is difficult to detect, from legally available and low cost products. The suspects were arrested after buying acetone, one of the key ingredients. Sara had allegedly used social networks to express her desire to either journey to Syria or Iraq, or attack France, and pledged loyalty to Isis in a video posted online on Wednesday. But one of her online jihadi "mentors" was working for France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, and the intelligence triggered the dawn raid on her home. The couple had planned to have an Islamic marriage before Thomas carried out the suicide bombing, with Sara then travelling to join Isis in Syria as a "martyr's widow", BFMTV reported. The 34-year-old man arrested is suspected of putting the couple in contact with jihadis in Syria, as well as helping the teenage girl obtain a fake passport. Bruno Le Roux, the French interior minister, said counter-terror operations were carried out in Montpellier, Clapiers and Marseillan. A spokesperson for his ministry said the arrests had “foiled plans for an imminent attack on French soil”, vowing that authorities would continue to fight terrorism. A statement said three of the four people arrested were suspected of directly preparing “a “violent act”, while explosives in the course of manufacture had also been discovered at the culmination of the two-week investigation. |
| Posted by:Bright Pebbles |
| #2 The couple had planned to have an Islamic marriage before Thomas carried out the suicide bombing, with Sara then travelling to join Isis in Syria as a "martyr's widow", BFMTV reported. Ladies and Gentlemen, let's give a warm welcome to ISLAM! |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-02-10 16:36 |
| #1 Native-born and raised Lutherans? Refugees? Or recent immigrants? Since nobody else seems to care about the latter two categories, *I* want to know! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-02-10 13:17 |