Posted on 11/16/2015 2:21:36 AM PST by AdmSmith
French authorities have reportedly identified the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks as a 27-year-old Belgian, who may have also tried to orchestrate earlier thwarted attacks on trains and churches.
Abaaoud is believed to have financed and organised the attacks.
French radio station RTL said authorities consider the 27-year-old “one of the most active extremists†linked to ISIL in Syria.
He has been linked to plotted attacks in Belgium and is wanted in Greece.
Go back to sleep everyone.. Now we have them contained. We all know there is only one mastermind.. And since we have him.. It’s all rainbows and unicorns. /sarc
Funny, his name doesn’t sound Belgian. Maybe it’s an obscure Flemmish name.
We need Hercule Poirot!
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said that 104 people have been placed under house arrest and 168 raids took place last night. He said 23 people have been arrested
Total of 23 people arrested,31 weapons seized, Laptops, hard drives, phones, a rocket launcher all seized on overnight raid in
Syrian passport holder Ahmad Al Mohammad, who is said to have passed with refugees through the Greek island of Leros, is one of the suicide bombers named by French prosecutors in the past few minutes.
The prosecutor’s office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.
He was named yesterday by Greek and Serbian newspapers as Ahmed Almohamed, though different spellings are common with transliterated Arabic names.
He was born on 10 September 1990 in Idlib, north-west Syria, according to the passport.
The passport was registered by a refugee who landed on the Greek island of Leros, on 7 October. Al Mohammad is then reported to have travelled through Macedonia before crossing into Serbia at Miratovac.
The Serbian newspaper Blic said he crossed into the country on 7 October, having arrived four days earlier in Leros, and reported that he had formally sought asylum in the southern Serbian town of Preševo.
A Greek newspaper, Proto Thema, said he was travelling with a second man, which it named as Mohammed Almuhamed, and published pictures purporting to show their travel documents. The passport scans published by the Greek and Serbian newspapers have not been independently verified.
Authorities had understandably been cautious over the past few days about definitively saying the passport found at the scene belonged to the bomber, until his fingerprints were matched this morning.
The Guardian has previously reported on the burgeoning trade in fake and stolen passports from Syria.
Confessions of an ISIS Spy
He joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State, trained jihadist infantry, and groomed foreign operatives—including a pair of Frenchmen. And now, Abu Khaled says he is ready to talk.
For all the attention paid to ISIS, relatively little is known about its inner workings. But a man claiming to be a member of the so-called Islamic State’s security services has stepped forward to provide that inside view. This series is based on days of interviews with this ISIS spy.
Part One: An Appointment in Istanbul
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/15/confessions-of-an-isis-spy.html
Yeah, Flemish, that sounds right, that's it. Damn those Flemings. They're worse than the Amish.
He’s not Belgian.
Faces of EVIL!
The authorities have a vested interest in finding that the mastermind was not a Syrian refugee. So he’s Belgian.
Al Mohammad was traveling with Almuhamed? Albeit we have John Smiths galore, these names seem conveniently confusing as to just how many people actually were signed through.
But it is not always that easy to use their dress code, see for example this study by Charlesworth
http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=isp_collection
But at least one was a Syrian refugee, see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3360778/posts?page=10#10
Thank you for posting this link. Fascinating background. .look forward to the next installment.
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