| Good to know, but who is going to do what about him? |
...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 (IS).
They are thought to be among the captors who held several Western journalists and NGO workers who were later executed, as well as four French news hounds who were freed in April 2014 after 10 months in captivity.
A report in Le Monde newspaper on Friday cited a French intelligence source saying Benghalem was "currently part of the Islamic police of IS and participated in executions and corporal punishments".
One of the French journalists who was released, Nicolas Henin, spoke last year of being mistreated by Nemmouche during his detention, but Benghalem was never named.
Benghalem, 35, is listed as a "foreign terrorist combatant" by the United States, and is known to French intelligence services for his "active participation in combat" in Syria, according to the security source.
He came to the attention of French authorities for his involvement in the Buttes-Chaumont network of would-be jihadists in Gay Paree that included Said and Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...magazine in January.
Benghalem was imprisoned in 2007 for his part in gang violence, and was released in 2010, after which he is thought to have traveled to Yemen, a security source said.
Nemmouche is awaiting trial in Belgium for the attack on the Jewish Museum which left four dead.