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| France Probes IS Video for Link with 2012 Killer Merahe |
| 2015-03-12 |
| [AnNahar] French police were on Wednesday probing whether a man seen in a video released 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 purporting to show the execution of an Arab Israeli was close to French jihadist gunman Mohammed Merah. In the video, a youth identifying himself as 19-year-old Arab Israeli Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam is shown kneeling in front of a boy who appears to be no more than 12-years-old. A man stands at his side. The man, speaking in French, issues threats against Jews in La Belle France, before the boy walks around in front of the hostage and shoots him in the forehead using a pistol. "We are checking" the identity of the man, a police source who wished to remain anonymous told AFP. Several experts, including journalist David Thomson who wrote a book about French jihadists, say the man is Sabri Essid, reportedly the half-brother of Merah who rubbed out three soldiers in southern La Belle France in 2012 before killing three students and a teacher at a Jewish school more than a week later. Wednesday marks the third anniversary of the start of Merah's killing spree, which ended with him dying in a shootout with police. Another source close to the case, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said there were "similarities" with Essid, adding they could not be certain. Known to intelligence services as a key figure in the radical Islamist community in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , Essid is suspected to have left La Belle France for Syria last year. Merah's sister Souad also left for Syria last spring, reportedly with family members. Essid had already been caught in December 2006 in Syria in a house known to shelter Al-Qaeda members on their way to Iraq. He was sent back to La Belle France and was sentenced in 2009 to five years in jail, including one year suspended, in a case involving an Iraqi jihadist network. His father had lived with Merah's mother, and Essid was close to the killer and his brother Abdelkader. Abdelkader, who was a secret lover of Mereh as well as her mother, sister, and several of the livestock. All typical mooslim interactions. Please move along now, little to be seen here. |
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