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| Paris attack said possibly tied to Islamic State via Tunisia killer |
| 2015-01-09 |
| [IsraelTimes]. One of the Charlie Hebdo suspects worked with IS member Boubaker al-Hakim to send fighters to join Al-Qaeda in Iraq A French-Tunisian jihadist who assassinated two Tunisian politicians in 2013 provides a possible link between Charlie Hebdo suspect Cherif Kouachi and the 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 based in Iraq and Syria, a researcher told AFP on Thursday. Boubaker al-Hakim is a member of the krazed killer Islamic State (IS) group, which last month grabbed credit for assassinating two secular politicians, Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi, in Tunisia in 2013. He was previously part of the Butte-Chaumont network in Gay Paree alongside Kouachi that helped send fighters to join Al Qaeda in Iraq in the mid-2000s. Kouachi is wanted along with his brother Said for the deadly attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday that left 12 people dead. Hakim represents the link between the Kouachi brothers and (IS), said researcher Jean-Pierre Filiu, a leading expert on radical Islam at Gay Parees Sciences Po university. It is impossible that an operation on the scale of the one that led to the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was not sponsored by Daesh, he claimed, using an alternative name for IS. No group has yet grabbed credit for the Charlie Hebdo attack, but it is certain that (IS) is closely following it and waiting to see how it ends, said Filiu. I am sure that the video claiming responsibility is already prepared. He added that Hakim is not a very senior figure in IS, but gained respect within the movement after killing Belaid and Brahmi. Hakim grabbed credit for the murders in a video released last month that was filmed in IS territory somewhere in Iraq or Syria. Born in 1983, he is only around a few months younger than Kouachi and grew up in the same area of Gay Paree the 19th arrondissement where the Butte-Chaumont network was established. Both men were jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and convicted together in Gay Paree in 2008 for their role in the network. Hakim was sentenced to seven years for running a way station in Damascus for young French Moslems en route to fight US forces in Iraq. Kouachi received three years. Hakim, and no doubt Kouachi, rejoined Al Qaedas Iraqi networks after they were released from prison and accompanied them in their transformation into Daesh, said Filiu. The combat experience they acquired was useful in the cold-blooded liquidations they have carried out since. |
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