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2017-03-01 Europe
4 teenage girls detained in France in suspected attack plots
[Ynet] Three teenage girls and an 18-year-old woman were detained in different parts of La Belle France Tuesday as suspects in attack plots, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said.

The four teenagers are suspected of taking part in an online chat channel, called The Lionesses, through the Telegram instant messaging application, the office said.

Prosecutors allege they spoke of the possibility of preparing "violent actions."

Three of the detained teens are minors ages 14, 15 and 17. The fourth turned 18 in January, the office said.

Several French news outlets, citing unnamed judicial sources, reported the four teenagers were following the Telegram channel of Rachid Kassim, a 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighter who was targeted in a US dronezap in early February and who is believed to have overseen multiple plots in his homeland.

A growing number of young women and teen girls have been detained in La Belle France on suspicions of plotting attacks within the country or trying to go to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State group.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-03-01 03:36|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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