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Madrid jihadists planned to kill Jews in Paris copycat action
2015-11-07
[IsraelTimes] Three IS-affiliated Moroccan suspects tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
for plotting 'imminent attack on security forces, or against Jewish interests'


A suspected jihadist cell recently apprehended by Spanish anti-terrorist officers planned to kill Jews and coppers in Madrid, authorities said.

The three alleged members of the cell, who were arrested on Tuesday, were Moroccan nationals living in Spain on valid staying permits, the La Voz de Galicia daily reported on Wednesday.

According to the findings of the investigation that led to their arrest, they considered themselves affiliated to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terrorist organization but never traveled to the Middle East to participate in fighting there.

The three remained in contact online and planned to carry out attacks similar to the ones perpetrated by Amedy Coulibaly, who in January murdered four people at a kosher supermarket in eastern Gay Paree a day after he bumped off a police officer south of the city.

The report, based on information provided by unnamed officials, did not name specific targets allegedly eyed by the suspects, aged 26-29. It said they had "planned an imminent attack on security forces or attacks against Jewish interests in the Spanish capital."

Separately, the Danish intelligence service, PET, said that a Danish national of Paleostinian descent who killed a Jewish guard and maimed two coppers outside a Copenhagen synagogue in February meant to leave the country, possibly for Syria, shortly before police caught up with him and killed him in a shootout.

Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein got a new Danish passport nine days before the Feb. 16 killings, according to the PET report on him compiled in February and obtained Wednesday by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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