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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suspected French Islamist militants detained in Syria
2017-12-28
[Ynet] Several suspected French Islamist bandidos hard boyz have been tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
 in northern Syria, including a man once convicted of running a jihadist recruitment network in La Belle France, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.

According to French news channel LCI, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia detained three men on Dec. 17.

"Several French (nationals) were arrested in northern Syria in the Hassakeh area, near the Iraqi border," the source said, confirming the arrests.

The source added there were more than three Frenchies stopped, including Thomas Barnouin,
...also known as Thomas Abdelhakim, the converted son of French schoolteachers became a member of the Toulouse network led by “the white emir,” Olivier Corel, after studying in Saudi Arabia...
an Islamist known to French security services who is believed to have gone to Syria in 2014 to join 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....
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