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Student who was cleared as getaway driver in Charlie Hebdo attacks arrested as 'tries to join ISIS in Syria' |
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[DailyMail] o Hamyd Mourad thought to have been getaway driver during massacre o Classmates provided him with alibi and said he was in school at the time o Was cleared of being the ’third man’ in the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack o Last week Mourad was intercepted in Turkey trying to join ISIS in Syria A student who was cleared of being the ’third man’ in the Charlie Hebdo ... ![]() terrorist attack in La Belle France has now been tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! for allegedly trying 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Hamyd Mourad, 20, was originally thought to have been the getaway driver when two Al-Qaeda operatives massacred 12 people around the Gay Paree offices of the satirical magazine in January 2015. There was a huge campaign aimed at releasing Hamyd, who was then a teenager, with classmates eventually providing an alibi then led to him being released without charge. But now ‐ in what appears to be another huge failure by La Belle France’s security agencies ‐ Mourad was intercepted in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on July 28th as he tried to join the Isis caliphate in Syria. Mourad, who remained on a terrorist watch list in La Belle France, was deported to Bulgaria, where he remains in a detention centre awaiting his return to La Belle France. Gay Paree intelligence sources told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that material found in Mourad’s backpack, including a phone and laptop computer, made him a clear 'candidate for jihad’. It added that anti-terrorism prosecutors in Gay Paree had ’opened a judicial investigation in order to issue a European arrest warrant for him.’ The Charleville-Mezieres prosecutor confirmed that Mourad had just finished the first year of a science and technology course at university, had been ’reported missing’ by his family on July 25th. Mourad was the brother-in-law of Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the murders at Charlie Hebdo with his brother Said Kouachi. The pair used AK47s to assassinate writers and cartoonists whom they accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, before they themselves were later bumped off by police commandos. In the hours after the attack, Hamyd’s name was released as a prime suspect and a manhunt was launched. Hamyd handed himself into a cop shoppe in his home town of Charleville-Mezieres, some 160 miles from Gay Paree, and was held and interrogated for more than two days. After being released without charge, Hamyd said: ’I was stunned, completely overwhelmed by the events. ’I'm in shock, people said horrible and false things about me on social media even though I am a normal student who lives quietly with his parents.’ |
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Youngest of three suspects in Paris attack surrenders to police |
2015-01-08 |
[IsraelTimes] Hamyd Mourad, 18, in jug; manhunt continues for Said and Cherif Kouachi; 12 victims of deadly shooting at Charlie Hebdo offices identified The youngest of the three suspects in the deadly Gay Paree attack Wednesday on the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo has surrendered to police in Charleville-Meziere, a city some 230 km northeast of Gay Paree, sources said. “Hamyd Mourad handed himself in to police… on Wednesday at 11:00 pm (2200 GMT) after seeing his name circulating on social media,” the source told AFP. “He has been jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! and taken into custody,” another source confirmed. Late Wednesday night, authorities said an anti-terror raid was under way in the northeastern city of Reims. According to ITele, a family member of Mourad was arrested in the operation. Mourad along with two others were suspected of methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor of Charlie Hebdo, before escaping in a car, in La Belle France’s deadliest postwar terrorist attack. Mourad is said to have been the getaway driver. Said Kouachi, 34, Cherif Kouachi, 32 — brothers and Gay Paree-born Frenchies of Algerian descent — were still on the lam. Mourad is said to be the brother-in-law of Cherif, according to Le Point. French police issued an appeal for witnesses of the attack early Thursday morning and released photos of the brothers. They were described as “armed and dangerous.” The younger Kouachi had been active between the years 2003 and 2005 in rallies urging French Moslems to join jihadists in Iraq in battle against the US army, Metronews reported. In 2008, he was convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to three years and 18 months suspended sentence. The suspects’ ID cards were found in an abandoned vehicle near the scene of the attack, according to Ynet. Eight journalists, a guest and two coppers were killed, said Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins. The two coppers were named as Ahmed Merabet, 42, and Franck Brinsolaro, 49. Brinsolaro was reportedly the police bodyguard of the paper’s editor Stephane Charbonnier, widely known by his pen name Charb, who was killed along with four other cartoonists in the attack; Jean Cabut, the lead cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo with the pen name Cabu, Bernard Velhac, pen name Tignous and Jewish cartoonist Georges Wolinski, pen name Wolinski, Philippe Honoré, pen name Honoré. Among the dead were also Bernard Maris, an economist who is a contributor to the newspaper and was heard regularly on French radio, Mustapha Ourrad, a copy editor at the paper, Frédéric Boisseau, a maintenance worker, Elsa Cayat, an analyst and columnist and Michel Renaud, a guest and friend of Cabut. Eleven people were maimed in the attack, four of them critically. Late Wednesday, vigils for the victims were held in cities across the world. La Belle France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Schools closed across Gay Paree, although thousands of people jammed Republique Square near the site of the shooting to honor the victims, holding aloft pens and papers reading “Je suis Charlie” — “I am Charlie." There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which also left four people critically maimed, and was condemned by world leaders as an attack on freedom of expression, but praised by supporters 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.... terrorist group. The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunnies headed straight for Charbonnier, killing him and his police bodyguard first, said Christophe Crepin, a police union front man. Minutes later, two men strolled out to a black car waiting below, calmly firing on a police officer, with one gunman shooting him in the head as he writhed on the ground, according to video and a man who watched in fear from his home across the street. The witness, who refused to allow his name to be used because he feared for his safety, said the attackers were so methodical he first mistook them for La Belle France’s elite anti-terrorism forces. Then they fired on the officer. “They knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. While one kept watch and checked that the traffic was good for them, the other one delivered the final coup de grace,” he said. “They ran back to the car. The moment they got in, the car drove off almost casually.” The witness added: “I think they were extremely well-trained, and they knew exactly down to the centimeter and even to the second what they had to do." The security analyst group Stratfor said the gunnies appeared to be well-trained “from the way they handled their weapons, moved and shot. These attackers conducted a successful attack, using what they knew, instead of attempting to conduct an attack beyond their capability, failing as a result.” An al-Qaeda tweeter who communicated Wednesday with AP said the group is not claiming responsibility, but called the attack “inspiring.” |
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Authorities earlier had identified the three men as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both French and in their early 30s, and Hamyd Mourad, 18. It couldn't immediately be determined which of the suspects was killed or whether the two others were wounded. An official told The Associated Press that the men were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Little information was immediately available about Mourad and Said Kouachi, but Cherif Kouachi has been suspected of involvement in terrorist groups for at least a decade. In January 2005, he and another French national were arrested in Paris as they were planning to fly to Iraq via Syria. Kouachi was described at the time as one of two deputies to the leader of an operation to send young volunteers to Iraq to fight U.S.-led forces. Authorities linked the operation to the 19th Arrondissement Network, named for the Paris district where it was based, which is home to many Muslim families with roots in France's former North African colonies. Kouachi was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to three years in prison, 18 months of which were suspended. The Associated Press quoted Cherif Kouachi in 2008 as saying he'd been motivated by outrage at images of torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib. "I really believed in the idea," it quoted him as saying.
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French Police Identify 3 Suspects In Attack That Killed 12 |
2015-01-08 |
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] French police officials identified three men as suspects in a deadly attack against newspaper offices that killed 12 people and shook the nation on Wednesday. Tear down the mosque they attended. Arrest their friends and relatives. Oh, wait. That would be "backlash." Just send in the grief counselors as usual. Two officials named the suspects as "Frenchies" Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, who are brothers and in their early 30s, as well as 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn't immediately clear. Probably also a theoretical Frenchie. One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. Perhaps the one they said they were linked to? A witness of Wednesday's shootings at the offices of weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo said one of the attackers told onlookers, "You can tell the media that it's al-Qaeda in Yemen." They probably really worked for the Mossad. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation. They didn't want to be murdered by guys in turbans speaking perfect French, like John Kerry did earlier today. No arrests have been confirmed in the hunt for the attackers. I'll bet they know where ol' John-Pierre is, though. Masked gunnies stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was La Belle France's deadliest terrorist attack in half a century. I'd have to look that one up. JFM probably knows which one they're talking about, though. Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison. I'm sure Human Rights Watch was apalled at the severity of the sentence. During Cherif Kouachi's 2008 trial, he told the court, "I really believed in the idea" of fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. He said he was motivated by his outrage at television images of torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib. I'm sure all sorts of Moslems world-wide would be outraged at the sight of Dr. Guillotine's gift to the Republic lopping the bastard's head off. Shouting " When I was in the Army we used to drill attacking editorial offices all the time. That's what real soldiers do, y'know. located near Gay Paree' Bastille monument. The publication's depictions of Islam have drawn condemnation and threats before - it was Molotov cocktailed in 2011 - although it also satirized other religions and political figures. The B.O. regime tut-tutted about it at the time. Not the other religions, though. President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said it was a terrorist act "of exceptional barbarism," adding that other attacks have been thwarted in La Belle France in recent weeks. Perhaps M. le President should give some serious thought to hunting tese guys down and killing them? Fears have been running high in La Belle France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home. |
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