Paris bombings

[Peter Lemkin]

Pardon the 'English', it is translated from Dutch by computer.....but interesting despite the awkward English. It is hard to believe that Western Intelligence Agencies don't read the most popular glossy magazine ISIL puts out - Dabiq [it even has an English language edition]

'Mastermind behind attacks' roared the IS magazine: they let me commit it.
Robin de Wever - 11/16/15, 14:47 http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/37461/Aanslage...gaan.dhtml



© Dabiq. Abaaoud, last February in IS-glossy Dabiq.
Belgian and French intelligence had him for months in their sights. Yet was it possible Abdelhamid Abaaoud, mastermind behind the attacks of last Friday, was allowed to just take its course. In fact, he bragged about it in IS 'favorite magazine' - Dabiq



© Dabiq.
Abaaoud in the February issue of IS glossy Dabiq.
The perpetrators of Paris
What is known so far about the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris? Faithfully put the names and the hitherto known facts in this article at a glance
It is almost inevitable that the Belgian and French intelligence ever encountered in recent months by the same name. Abdelhamid Abaaoud was already a time known as the most important jihadist from Belgium, said an unnamed senior French official Monday to news agency AP.


The attacks on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket last January: Abaaoud was involved, according to AP. The fight with police in the Walloon city of Verviers, a few days later too. Prevented attack on the Thalys near Paris in August: Mathews Abaaoud. Prevented attack on a Parisian church: you guessed it.


And then the attacks last Friday. Abaaoud was the mastermind behind it, Reuters news agency reported Monday. French intelligence services deny that now - saying whether he is the mastermind, remains to be seen. But Abaaoud spread from Syria engaged in jihad in Belgium and France, which seems hard to deny. Even if it was only because he himself has told about in Dabiq, the glossy IS Magazine.


"They knew me already '
"The intelligence services knew me already because they had me already put in prison," he explained dryly in an interview in the February issue.


Under his nom de guerre Abu Umar al-Baljiki he told that story candidly about a raid by the police in Belgium. Probably he is referring to the raid that made the police after the Charlie Hebdo-attack on a house in Verviers. That was indeed a 'safe house' for his brothers, he says. "After they found out that I had been with the brothers (who stayed in the house,hot.) And we had together planned actions."



My name and photo were 'all over the news, "and yet I could safely stay in their country and operations plans against them.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud
Abaaoud was no stranger in Wallonia. He grew up near Brussels and went to a very prestigious school. In 2013 he decided to travel to Syria as a jihadist. From the interview it can be seen that it is then that he temporarily returned to Belgium.


"By the power of Allah we came into Europe '
Whether that's true, is not verifiable. Abaaoud does certainly not mysterious about it. "We faced a number of setbacks," he says about the trip to Belgium.


"We have spent months looking for a way to get into Europe and is the power of God which eventually succeeded. Then we were able to obtain weapons and we have set up the safe house. Meanwhile, we planned attacks against the Crusaders." Crusaders is IS-jargon for the (Christian) West.


Also traveling to Syria went to him in his own words off easily. "Allah has given them (the European authorities, ed.) Blinded," he says. The trip went fine, "although I was chased by so many intelligence services. "This all proves that a Muslim does not have to be afraid of the bloated image of the intelligence services of the Crusaders. My name and photo were all over the news and yet I could safely stay in their country planning operations against them and safely leave when which was necessary. "


"Suddenly my picture appeared in all the media '
Just seemed to go wrong. A friend lost his camera. The finder sold the recording was then in a western journalist, claims Abaaoud. Probably he is referring to the movie in which he is traveling with a couple of brothers IS to dump a literal truckload of corpses of opponents. That was last year around indeed.


Abaaoud:. "Suddenly my picture appeared in all media, but the kuffar (unbelievers, ed.) Were blinded by Allah I was even stopped by a policeman who doubted whether he would let me and my face compared with the images, but.. he sent me, though he saw the agreement! That was nothing less than a gift from Allah. "

[Lauren Johnson]

An initial report of the savage French retaliation against ISIS:

Unfortunately, Raqqa is still a city with hundreds of thousands of people, and these are all civilians. This current set of airstrikes has struck the electricity grid. It has hit a museum, it has hit clinics. It has not only hit the so-called headquarters of ISIS. So, this game that is being played between ISIS, the various Western air forces and the media is, you know, I think, quite troubling, that you can hit a building, the media will call it the headquarters, but then in a few weeks we will realize that this was not really the headquarters, this was some building that ISIS had used two weeks ago, and, you know, as a consequence of these strikes, civilians have been killed.

More at the link: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/16/w..._the_hands

[R.K. Locke]

You couldn't make it up...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-owne...ed-dozens/

^ From previous page, in case anyone missed it.


Also, another eyewitness reporting a white gunman:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/par...ck-6834503


This just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

[Peter Lemkin]

Also, another eyewitness reporting a white gunman:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/par...ck-6834503


This just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

That report certainly paints an older guy who kept from getting killed and was white, clean-cut, very muscular [like special forces types not most jihadis] and was driving a Mercedes, acting as look-out....very strange if so.

[Danny Jarman]

Hello Gladio

I expect alot of "ISIS is planning atrocities online so we need to clamp down on the internet" type news in the coming weeks...

[Peter Lemkin]

Britain to recruit nearly 2,000 spies to counter ISIL http://aje.io/supw pic.twitter.com/mfs7VyKq7K



That building's design bothers me as much as what goes on inside....trying to look like a 'modern castle', complete with moat.

[Magda Hassan]

© Dabiq. Abaaoud, last February in IS-glossy Dabiq.

Maybe it is the Dutch magazine respecting the copyright?

In the mean time IS are like big time used car salesmen selling human beings. If you look on page 64 of the glossy IS magazine here: http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/Issue...itions.pdf
There are 2 men for sale and they give a phone number for byers to reach them on. Surely it can't be too hard to trace that?

[Magda Hassan]

There are 2 men for sale and they give a phone number for byers to reach them on. Surely it can't be too hard to trace that?

No, just checked again. They are Telegram numbers which is an encrypted app. That would be hard to trace. But not impossible. But not you average FBI flat foot.

[David Guyatt]

Britain to recruit nearly 2,000 spies to counter ISIL http://aje.io/supw pic.twitter.com/mfs7VyKq7K



That building's design bothers me as much as what goes on inside....trying to look like a 'modern castle', complete with moat.

uh oh. The old rice-bowl raises it's ugly head. Create a threat, sit back for it to do its bloody awful thing, and then suck in the money to build the bureaucracy fight it.

Do we never learn how these guys operate?

[Danny Jarman]

David Cameron said the UK must strike "the head of the snake" of IS at its stronghold in Raqqa

I wonder what's the obsession with Raqqa? Is the holy grail there? Why are we looking to spend billions to get our hands tucked in there?

Surely there's more to this than meets the eye