A top French 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....
jihadist who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Gay Paree has been killed in an overnight
, security sources told AFP.Fabien Clain, who is believed to have gone to Syria in March 2015, was killed in the terror group’s last Syrian redoubt of Baghouz, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
Clain is a seasoned jihadist, who was found guilty of helping send holy warriors to fight US forces in Iraq in 2009 before leaving himself to live in Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate six years later.
| According to this article in our archive, the Clain brothers planned to send child fighters to Europe during the Merkel flood, pretending to be asylum seekers. |
The chilling propaganda recording warned that the Gay Paree 2015 jihadist rampage was just "the beginning of the storm."
The IS button men slaughtered 129 people in coordinated attacks at restaurants and bars around Gay Paree, the Bataclan concert hall and the national stadium in an atrocity that stunned the world.
His brother Jean-Michel Clain, also a jihadist, was maimed in the same raid that killed Fabien in Baghouz, where the last IS fighters are holding out against US-backed Syrian forces, the sources said.
There was no immediate confirmation of the report from the French defense or foreign ministries.
Fabien, also known as Brother Omar, or Abu Adam al-Faransi, converted to Islam in the 1990s and is thought to be in his early 40s.
He was originally from the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, but later moved to mainland La Belle France.
He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2009 for organizing a network responsible for sending recruits to fight US soldiers in Iraq.
At the time, he and brother Jean-Michel were active in a radical Islamist network, known as the Artigat cell, in the 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...
area of southwest La Belle France.
They are believed to have been radicalized by a Frenchie of Syrian origin, Olivier Corel, dubbed the "white imam."
| ...who was head of the Toulouse network. |