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| Brother-in-Law of Notorious French Jihadist Held after Syria Trip |
| 2014-09-24 |
[AnNahar] The brother-in-law of Mohammed Merah, the Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman who went on a killing spree in 2012 that shocked La Belle France, was nabbedBook 'im, Mahmoud! at a Gay Paree airport Tuesday on suspicion of having joined jihadists in Syria. The man -- the husband of Merah's sister Souad, who herself is believed to be in Algeria -- was detained at Orly airport near Gay Paree along with two other people, interior ministry sources said. All three were arrested in Turkey at the end of August and handed over to French authorities, the sources added. The arrests came just a day after the radical 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, which controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, called on Moslems to kill citizens of countries taking part in the U.S.-led coalition against the jihadists, which includes La Belle France. French authorities are particularly wary about nationals who have traveled to the two restive countries to wage jihad and may return to their home country to stage attacks. Already in May, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve had warned that Souad Merah, the sister of the gunman who killed three French soldiers and four Jews -- including three children -- in March 2012 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... , had left La Belle France and may be fighting in Syria. Mohammed Merah himself died after being shot by police following a prolonged stand-off at the apartment block where he lived. It later emerged that he had visited Pakistain and Afghanistan prior to his attacks and had been on the radar of French intelligence, who had gravely underestimated the threat he posed. His sister Souad left Toulouse in May for Barcelona, from where she took a flight to Istanbul and then another plane for the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border. According to a source close to the case, she is currently in Algeria after having left Syria. Among the two others who were held Tuesday was a 27-year-old man who had already been arrested in 2007 for being part of a network that recruited candidates for jihad in Iraq, an intelligence source said. The third was a resident in the southern city of Albi where another jihadist network was dismantled over the summer. According to Cazeneuve, around 930 French citizens or residents, including at least 60 women, are either actively engaged in jihad in Iraq and Syria or are planning to go. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 French authorities are particularly wary about nationals who have traveled to the two restive countries to wage jihad and may return to their home country to stage attacks. "Wary" here as well. Our Holder would issue a DoJ warning bulletin with regard to foreign travel, and racial profiling. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-24 02:20 |