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| US-backed forces arrest one of the ‘most dangerous’ European ISIS members | |
| 2018-05-25 | |
[ALMASDARNEWS] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Thursday that their intelligence forces locked away... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... one of the "most dangerous" European members of the so-called 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.... (ISIS). According to a statement from the official SDF website, their intelligence units arrested the French terrorist Adrian Lionel Kayali (AKA "Abu Osama) on Sunday, May 19th. The SDF claimed Kayali was arrested along with his wife after their intelligence units conducted a special operation to capture him. Kayali was reportedly trying to escape to ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... before he was apprehended by the US-backed forces this past weekend. The ISIS terrorist was wanted by the European authorities for his connection to the 2016 Nice terrorist attack in La Belle France.
...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. "The SDF's intelligence services conducted an operation on May 19 that led to the capture of a group of IS jihadists led by Adrien Guihal, known as Abu Osama al-Faransi," the Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement. Guihal was thought to be among the most dangerous members of the large French contingent in the ranks of the Islamic State group, whose self-styled "caliphate" spanned huge swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria before collapsing last year. The Kurdish forces controlling northeastern Syria have detained dozens of French IS members who have gone underground in recent months, including well-known figures such as Thomas Barnouin and Emilie Konig. The SDF statement said Guihal was detained together with his wife, who was not identified, in the area of Raqa, IS's former Syrian "capital" which the US-backed SDF took last year. He made headlines when he was recognised as the man behind the voice that grabbed credit for the July 2016 attack that killed 86 people in the French city of Nice. He is a veteran member of La Belle France's jihadist networks however. He converted to Islam while he was still in his teens and became acquainted with the brothers Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, central figures in French jihadist circles, more than 10 years ago. According to a profile in French daily Liberation, Guihal learnt Arabic in Cairo and became very active in online jihadist forums. He was detained in La Belle France in 2008 on charges of planning an attack in La Belle France to protest against the French military presence in Afghanistan and was sentenced in 2012 to four years in prison. He was released that same year. According to Liberation, he immediately started forming another jihadist cell in the Gay Paree region and eventually managed to reach Syria in the spring of 2015. Around 300 French jihadists, including at least 12 women, have been killed in Iraq and Syria, according to French security and other sources speaking to AFP in March this year. Another 40 or more Frenchies are being held by held by the SDF and their fate is a controversial issue in La Belle France, whose authorities seem reluctant to bring them home for trial. La Belle France argues that any adults among them should be tried where they are, so long as they face a "fair trial". Rights groups and lawyers for the families of the jihadists say none of them are getting due process in the Kurdish-run part of Syria. There is also some concern that the Kurds, who feel they have been abandoned by their erstwhile Western allies since the collapse of the IS "caliphate", might let dozens of dangerous loose if their home countries refuse to repatriate them. | |
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