[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Three young men plotted an attack on a French military base after receiving orders from an 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 contact in Syria to strike in La Belle France, prosecutors said Friday.
The accounts Sherlocks say they gave underscore the role of the Islamic State organization's savvy social media machine in recruiting Western youth. All three had high school diplomas and quickly radicalized watching grisly IS group videos, the prosecutor's office said.
The men, tossed in the slammer
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Monday, went before an investigative judge Friday. The prosecutor's office opened an investigation June 23 on suspicion they were preparing terrorist acts to harm people.
More than 2,500 potentially radicalized youth have been flagged in La Belle France by worried families, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said this week, and 1,850 others have traveled to Syria or are trying to.
The prosecutor's statement said the three men told Sherlocks they planned a late December or early January attack on the Mediterranean military post Fort Bear, where Djebril A., 23, a former Marine, once worked. The others, Ismael K., 17, and Antoine F., 19, said the plan was to decapitate the base chief, which Djebril A. denied.
Djebril A. told Sherlocks he felt he was on a mission for the Islamic State group and wanted to answer the order to attack a site in La Belle France, the statement said. He left the Marines in 2014 after less than a year for failure to adapt to military life.
The three intended to travel to Syria but Ismael K. raised suspicions and was questioned in October. A month later - at his mother's request - he was banned from leaving La Belle France, the statement said.
The three, who met online, communicated through an encrypted program.
| An Nahar adds: |
"They claim to be part of Daesh," said a source close to the investigation, using an alternative Arabic acronym to refer to the jihadist 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 that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.