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| French suspect charged in imminent terror plot |
| 2016-03-31 |
| [FOXNEWS] Gay Paree authorities filed preliminary terrorism charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old Frenchie for allegedly plotting an imminent attack and operating an explosives arsenal of what prosecutors called "unprecedented scale." Gay Paree Prosecutor Francois Molins said Wednesday that the suspect, Reda Kriket, is accused of participating in a terrorist group with plans for at least one attack, possessing and transporting arms and explosives, and holding fake documents, among other charges. Kriket will stay in jug while magistrates continue investigating the case and determine whether to send him to trial. Kriket is believed to have traveled to Syria in 2014 and 2015 and made several trips between La Belle France and Belgium and the Netherlands, Molins said. At least three other people are in jug in the case in Belgium and the Netherlands. Molins did not say whether Kriket's purported plot was linked 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... network behind last week's attacks in Brussels and last November's attacks in Gay Paree. The prosecutor said no target for Kriket's thwarted attack has been identified, and Kriket has given limited explanation to Sherlocks in his six days in detention. Two Algerians believed linked to Kriket's alleged plot are being held in Brussels. The Belgian federal prosecutors' office said Wednesday that the men, identified as Abderrahmane A. and Rabah M., will face a hearing April 7. Another Frenchie linked to Kriket, Anis Bari, is being held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Molins said. Bari is resisting extradition to La Belle France. Among things found when police searched Kriket's apartment in the Gay Paree suburb of Argenteuil on Thursday were 500 grams of the explosive TATP, 1.3 kilograms of industrial explosives, several bottles of oxygenated water and acetone, material to make detonators, five automatic rifles, seven cell phones, stolen passports and two computers showing links with jihadi groups, Molins said. Before the Gay Paree attacks, Kriket and the suspected Gay Paree attacks ringleader were convicted in absentia in the July 2015 trial of Khaled Zerkani, who Belgium's federal prosecutor described as "the most significant recruiter of jihadi candidates in Belgium." Kriket, like Gay Paree attacks criminal mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was absent for the trial. Also implicated in the network was Najim Laachraoui, the bombmaker who made the explosives for the Nov. 13 attacks and then used his own creations as a suicide kaboomer in Brussels on March 22. Also Wednesday, French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... decided to abandon proposed legislation that would have revoked citizenship for convicted gunnies and strengthened the state of emergency, because differences between the two houses of parliament could not be resolved. He had submitted the two proposals days after the Nov. 13 attacks in Gay Paree that left 130 people dead. The country's state of emergency, swiftly declared by the government on the night of the attacks, was recently extended to May 26. It extends some police powers of search and arrest and limits public gatherings, among other changes. Laptop found near terror suspects’ hideout held images of Belgian PM’s home [IsraelTimes] Officials request US authorities’ help to examine electronic devices seized in raids conducted after last week’s Brussels attacks An official linked to the investigation of the Brussels terror attacks said Wednesday that a laptop found near the hideout of the suspects in the March 22 airport bombing contained images of the prime minister’s official residence and office. The official, who asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing, said that at the moment there were "absolutely no" specific indications that Prime Minister Charles Michel was under threat from the attackers. He said the computer "was full of stuff" of many locations and information garnered from the Internet. The prime minister’s office has long been under special security review which been increased since the November 13 attacks in Gay Paree. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Belgian officials had requested of US authorities to help examine two laptops and several phones seized from suspects in raids since the attacks in Brussels. |
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