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Greek police detain 4 jihadis, including possible Belgium jihad mastermind

Jan 17, 2015 3:57 pm By Robert Spencer

BelgiumGreeceThe jihad against Europe is continent-wide. And at the rate things are going, the continent will go to its death muttering, “This has nothing to do with Islam.”

“AP Source: Greek police detain 4 alleged terrorists,” by Demetris Nellas, Associated Press, January 17, 2015:

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police have detained four suspected terrorists, including one who could be the man wanted by Belgian authorities as an alleged ringleader of a jihadi cell, a police official told the Associated Press Saturday.

The four were arrested Saturday, including one who “matches the description” of Abdelhamid Abaaoud — the man who Belgian authorities suspect was the mastermind behind a dismantled jihadi cell there, the official said….

Two suspects were killed in a firefight and a third wounded in a vast anti-terrorism sweep in Belgium on Thursday that netted several returnees from Islamic holy war in Syria. Federal magistrate Eric Van der Sypt said the suspects were within hours of implementing a plan to kill police.

Belgian media reported that investigators were still looking for one man — a Belgian with Moroccan roots who had gone to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria, and was said to be in Greece. Federal magistrate Eric Van der Sypt declined to comment, but expressed “regret that the element of Greece has reached the media.”

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  1. wiederganger says

    Jan 17, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    I think my comment might have gotten screwed up so sorry if this posts twice.. As a native Belgian I am genuinely surprised they used the ‘moroccan’ word. Generally the euphemism used by the press is ‘of north African descent’ or ‘allochtoon’ (not quite sure of the literal english translation but it is used generally as the opposite of ‘autochtoon’ which pretty much means ‘belgian-born, of native Belgian descent.) In any case, although the Moroccan community in Belgium is only second in population to what I would refer to as ‘true belgians’ and second to none in crime rates or prison population it is the general media’s consensus that no perp should ever be called ‘Moroccan’ or even ‘of Moroccan descent’. To say the M-word is to be labeled racist or neonazi. Just ask Filip dewinter of vlaams belang, the only political party that speaks out against islamisation of my country and gets smeared and demonized for it at every single turn, a Flemish geert wilders, if you would.

    • Judi says

      Jan 17, 2015 at 6:41 pm

      Belgium used to be such a lovely little country. Myself and my family spent several happy vacations both in Ostend and Knokke-le- Zoote. Dread to think what it’s like now the savages have moved in.

      • Angemon says

        Jan 17, 2015 at 7:31 pm

        My girlfriend’s cousin was in Gent last year. According to her, it seemed like kebab was the national dish.

      • Itinerant says

        Jan 18, 2015 at 11:13 am

        I first lived and worked in Brussels,Athens,Amsterdam and various other European cities nearly 30 years ago.Some of these cities were the safest and most pleasant in Europe.
        I’ve returned to these places many times since and in certain areas the simmering malcontent is palpable and tangible.
        The EU, UN, IMF, ECHR, ECJ and various other unelected,supranational bodies are prepared to destroy European culture, free speech and protest, the rule of law and any notion of democracy to accomplish the massive social engineering works of the ENP- namely one gigantic economic zone encompassing the 16 MENA countries of the ENP and Europe.
        The Islamisation and wealth re-distribution has only just begun.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 17, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    The viper that Belgians have taken into their bosom!

  3. celticwarriorcanada says

    Jan 17, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    Glad to hear of their arrest ; but what will be their outcome ? These barbarian parasites will go to prison and will still be kept alive with European Tax Money . Even though I hate communism and China’s Human Rights Abuses , I think their method of dealing with these savages is much more effective and cost efficient . If they are found guilty line them up and shoot the vermine . But a prison sentence is better than nothing!

    • umbra says

      Jan 17, 2015 at 8:09 pm

      Evidently, there is no shortage of bullets or prison space in China for these violent ROP types.

  4. profitsbeard says

    Jan 17, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    This is just going make the jihadis madder.

    Best to do nothing.

    It’s a religion of equal dignity with all others according to the Pope.

    This kind of Islamophobic racial profiling must stop!

    (channeling the usual media ;lickspittle.)

  5. Jon says

    Jan 18, 2015 at 2:07 am

    I don’t know if we can accuse any of these Muslim murderers of being “masterminds”.. They’re not exactly James Bond villain material.

    • Aardvark says

      Jan 18, 2015 at 5:27 am

      Beat me to it, Jon. ‘Muslim mastermind’ is definitely an oxymoron.

  6. Clifford Hall says

    Jan 18, 2015 at 4:38 am

    wiederganger

    I’ve also noticed that since Charlie Hebdo news items in UK are naming the country of origin.

    If European governments accepted OPENLY that all of this does have something to do with Islam, what should they do?

  7. DIMITRIS says

    Jan 18, 2015 at 4:41 am

    Chthon in Greek mythology the other name of goddess Gaia
    αυτόχθων – autochthonous (indigenous aboriginal)
    ετερόχθων – heterochthon

  8. Januk36 says

    Jan 18, 2015 at 4:53 am

    Jihad goes on in Europe. This time molotov cocktails against a church in Jerez (Spain).

    http://www.abc.es/espana/20150117/abci-arrojan-coctel-molotov-contra-201501172244.html

    Unlike to be reported as many other cases after all it’s not a mosque stupid.

  9. thomas pellow says

    Jan 18, 2015 at 8:28 am

    And the Ummah two-way Islamic jihad connection between Islamic State and England-

    “Isis using UK female jihadis to incite terror acts back home, say researchers.

    “Intensive monitoring of social media accounts of female Britons based in northern Syria reveals women’s key new role.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/17/isis-uk-female-jihadists-database-icsr?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position1

    • shabeer_hassan says

      Jan 18, 2015 at 11:01 am

      Public people have no right to punish the people: even they attack them
      Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 173
      It is narrated on the authority of Miqdad b. Aswad that he said. Messenger of Allah, you just see (here is a point): If I encountered a person amongst the infidels (in the battlefield) and he attacked me and struck me and cut off one of my hands with the sword. Then he (in order to protect himself from me) took shelter of a tree and said: I become Muslim for Allah’s sake. Messenger of Allah, can I kill him after he had uttered this? The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said: Do not kill him. I (the narrator) said: Messenger of Allah, he cut off my hand and uttered this after amputating it; should I then kill him? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Don’t kill him, for I you kill him, verily he would be in a position where you had been before killing him and verily you would be in a position where he had been before uttering (kalima).
      Malik :: Book 21 : Hadith 21.10.19
      Yahya said that Malik was asked whether someone who killed one of the enemy could keep the man’s effects without the permission of the Imam. He said, “No one can do that without the permission of the Imam. Only the Imam can make ijtihad. I have not heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ever said, ‘Whoever kills someone can have his effects,’ on any other day than the day of Hunayn.”
      Muslim :: Book 9 : Hadith 3569
      Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Sa’d b. ‘Ubada al-Ansari said: Messenger of Allah, tell the if a man finds his wife with another person, should he kill him? Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: No. Sa’d said: Why not? I swear by Him Who has honoured you with Truth. There upon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Listen to what your chief says.
      Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 82 :: Hadith 829
      Narrated Al-Mughira:
      Sa’d bin Ubada said, “If I found a man with my wife, I would kill him with the sharp side of my sword.” When the Prophet heard that he said, “Do you wonder at Sa’d’s sense of ghira (self-respect)? Verily, I have more sense of ghira than Sa’d, and Allah has more sense of ghira than I.”
      Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 93 :: Hadith 512
      Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 89 :: Hadith 279
      Muslim :: Book 9 : Hadith 3553, 3569, 3571
      Bukhari :: Book 7 :: Volume 63 :: Hadith 228,229

      • SpiritOf1683 says

        Jan 18, 2015 at 5:52 pm

        No amount of cutting and pasting can disguise the evilness, sheer barbarity and depravity of your wicked death cult. It is utterly vile and if it disappeared tomorrow, so would 99% of the world’s problems. And as you think Christianity is so bad, get the hell out of the Christian country you live in and leech off, and join your fellow barbarians in some Islamic hellhole. We’d be better for it.

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