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| Iraq sentences 2 more French IS members to death, 6 so far | |
| 2019-05-29 | |
| [Ynet] An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced two high-profile French members of 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 to death, bringing the total number of French former jihadis condemned to death this week to six. The men sentenced to death Tuesday were identified as Karam Salam Mohammed El-Harchaoui and Brahim Ali Mansour Nejara. They are among a group of 12 French citizens who were detained by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in neighboring Syria and handed over to Iraq in January. The Kurdish-led group spearheaded the fight against IS in Syria and has handed over to Iraq hundreds of suspected IS members in recent months.
Nejara, 33, was involved in IS's foreign fighter operations, according to the French Terrorism Analysis Center. He allegedly helped imported muscle join IS in Syria, persuaded one of his brothers to commit an attack in La Belle France, and was associated with Foued Mohammed-Aggad, one of the jacket wallahs at the Bataclan theatre during the 2015 Gay Paree attacks. Harchaoui, 32, left for Syria in 2014 from Belgium. According to Belgian daily HLN, his younger brother and their Belgian wives were also IS members. They have 30 days to appeal. The remaining six face trial in the coming days under a law that allows capital punishment for anyone joining a "terrorist group" -- even those who did not take up arms. | |
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