| Submit your comments on this article |
| Europe |
| France: 5 Terror Attacks Thwarted since 2013, Networks Broken |
| 2014-12-18 |
| [IsraelTimes] La Belle France has thwarted five terror attacks and dismantled 13 networks linked to Lions of Islam in Syria but the number of young people leaving to join the fight has doubled in the past year, the country’s top security official said Wednesday. French fighters make up the largest contingent of Europeans being recruited to join Moslem Lions of Islam in Iraq and Syria, and security officials fear they will return newly skilled in warfare and carry out attacks at home. Calls by 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 for lone-wolf attacks in the West have heightened anxiety. A Frenchie, Mehdi Nemmouche, who is believed to have fought with the organization is charged in a deadly shooting at a Brussels Jewish museum in May. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday that La Belle France was committed to stopping the networks, but said about 1,200 citizens have left for Syria, including about 400 still in the war zone and 200 on their way. He gave no details on the five attacks he said had been stopped since August 2013, beyond saying they were planned either by recent returnees from Syria or those who had not yet left for the war zone. Two young women accompanied by two children were blocked at the Gay Paree airport on Saturday en route to Turkey, Cazeneuve said in a report to the government. But many leave unimpeded, especially young people who hide their intentions to family and friends. About a third of would-be jihadis are recent converts to Islam, Cazeneuve said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |