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Jihadi from Belgium identified as mastermind of Paris jihad attacks

Nov 16, 2015 12:03 pm By Robert Spencer

“All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow. I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.”

A few years ago I walked around Molenbeek. It was like being in a Sharia state, and I am sure that since then its Sharia adherence has only become more virulent. It is no surprise at all that it is turning out jihadis.

Why is Abaaoud holding a Qur'an? Doesn't he know that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam?
Why is Abaaoud holding a Qur’an? Doesn’t he know that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam?

“Belgian jihadi ID’d as mastermind of Paris attacks,” by Raphael Satter and John-Thor Dahlburg, Associated Press, November 16, 2015:

BRUSSELS (AP) — Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels’ most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d’Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium’s most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.

The child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s scruffy and multiethnic Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighborhood, the fugitive, in his late 20s, was identified by French authorities on Monday as the presumed mastermind of the attacks last Friday in Paris that killed 129 people and injured hundreds.

What’s more, one French official with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that Abaaoud is believed to have links to earlier terror attacks that were thwarted: one against a Paris-bound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans in August, and the other against a church in the French capital’s suburbs.

The official wasn’t authorized to make public comments on the subject and spoke on condition of anonymity.

“All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow,” Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014. “I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.”

Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organize and finance a terror cell in the eastern city of Verviers that was broken up in an armed police raid on Jan. 15, in which two of his presumed accomplices were killed.

The following month, Abaaoud was quoted by the Islamic State group’s English-language magazine, Dabiq, as saying that he had secretly returned to Belgium to lead the terror cell and then escaped to Syria in the aftermath of the raid despite having his picture broadcast across the news.

“I was even stopped by an officer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance!” Abaaoud boasted.

There was no official comment from the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office about Abaaoud’s reported role in the Paris attacks. Belgian police over the weekend announced the arrest of three suspects in Molenbeek, his old neighborhood, and were carrying out numerous searches there Monday.

The hardscrabble area in the west of Brussels has long been considered a focal point of Islamic radicalism and recruitment of foreign fighters to go to Iraq and Syria.

Abaaoud’s image became grimmer after independent journalists Etienne Huver and Guillaume Lhotellier, visiting the Turkish-Syrian frontier, obtained photos and video last year of Abaaoud’s exploits across Syria. The material included footage of him and his friends loading a pickup truck and a makeshift trailer with a mound of bloodied corpses.

Before driving off, a grinning Abaaoud tells the camera: “Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God’s path, we’re towing apostates, infidels who are fighting us.”…

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  1. Peter Hyatt says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    http://analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2015/11/barak-obamas-confession.html

    surprise, surprise

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 12:27 pm

      Peter, the article to which you provided a link is excellent communications forensics! This is a keeper, well worth reading by all! Thanks much for posting this link.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm

      Thanks for this piece!

      The case for Obama being a moslem is so overwhelming that it is remarkable. This communication forensic piece is yet another way to cross-reference and verify. Certainly if one were to compile Obama’s public statements on Islam, we would find a consistent pattern giving the game away again and again. Numerous times he has even blatantly let it slip (Freudian slips) but the power of willful ignorance and denial are incredibly strong things to overcome! It’s a lamentable part of human nature.

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 10:32 pm

      “Mastermind of paris jihad attacks”…..Yes islam has mastered his mind.

  2. Roger says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    From Belgium? Via syria more like

  3. Westman says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    The EU really works – EVERYTHING is administered from Brussels.

    • Westman says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 6:56 pm

      That was actually sarcasm that even the terrorist tragedy in Paris was directed from Brussels, the seat of EU control and adminstration; right under the “leadership” noses.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    These dogs will soon attack a Christian church.
    — guaranteed.

    Even before victims of the massacre have been buried Obama and others have been passionately defending more Muslim ‘refugees’ thereby signaling a willing submission to Islam.
    Muslims do not respect weakness.

    The only thing that has kept churches in the West safe from Muslims up to now is the full ever-present knowledge that as Muslims bow to prayer they might feel karma in the air.
    But, that has changed with the submissive acceptance of ‘refugees’.
    It is not just the so called refugees themselves but in the submissive signal we are sending to the Muslim world.

    Muslims will always push us to see what they can get away with.
    Any sign of weakness is like crack cocaine to a Muslim.

  5. Charli Main says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    “The mother of one of the Paris suicide bombers has claimed her son “did not mean to kill anyone”, as his family said that he may have blown himself up because of stress”.
    Yes—Yes—Yes– that’s it !!!!!!!! Nothing to do with Islam. He was stressed, because he felt alienated and disenfranchised because the Kaffirs failed to show him the love, respect and subservience that he was, as a Muslim, entitled to. ITS ALL OUR FAULT!!!!!!!

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 1:09 pm

      Wow, that’s a damned shame. Sorry to hear that. Unless you’re being a smart ass here. At least Sen. Lindsay Graham was tougher, he said that the *peaceful* Moslems are the victims in the Paris attacks, so being a tough American cowboy he cut this poor boy out of the sympathy circle. Sen. Graham may regret that statement. I wonder if the boy’s mom knows what Lindsay said.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 1:44 pm

      Thats one family to round up and throw out of the country, if indeed they live in France or any other Western European country..

      • Oliver says

        Nov 16, 2015 at 8:18 pm

        The family of the dead terrorist? or the family of Graham, who I think has served 30+ years too long in the Senate.

        he, like McCain, is a cowboy who wants to send troops to Syria 9or did, some time back) but I did not not notice his sons (if he has any); sons in law (if he ahs any), daughters, d.i.l’s, wife , grandchildren or he volunteering.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    Let’s see… Brussels is where the biggest and most powerful socialist bureaucracy on earth is located, and Belgium looks to be in the lead in the horse race to become the first Infidel nation to fall to Sharia. The runner up horse is Sweden, a socialist paradise filling up with new Moslems and rape and straining under the financial weight of giving them welfare to the point that there is growing concern now that its economy will collapse into bankruptcy.

    Could there be a connection between globo-socialism and Islam? And, if there is one, which way is the connection flowing, to whose benefit?

    • Oliver says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 8:14 pm

      See my comment- lower down; and HONEST REPORTING WAS NOT BEING SARCASTIC. The Swedish FM did say that.

      A worthwhile free blog about the Middle East. (www.honestreporting.org or .com-not sure)

  7. Jay Boo says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Nice ‘holy book’

    Every properly designed Qur’an should have a centrally located Islamic emblem on the front cover that is clearly visible at a distance of 100 yards.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 3:15 pm

      You talking target practice?

      • Jay Boo says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 2:27 am

        Exactly

  8. Shmooviyet says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    Dead bodies and gore are more enjoyable than jet skis, motorcycles, gifts for vacationing, etc.
    Simply a cultural difference!

  9. Jeremiah says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    If only they would allow Allah to fight their jihad instead of themselves. Perhaps they can occupy their time by listing the incidents at which Muslim blood flowed without provocation. A postage stamp ought to give them all the paper they need.

    • Westman says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 7:15 pm

      Isn’t it amazing what an absent slave owner that Allah fellow turned out to be? All the slaves have for instruction are some old conflicting notes he left behind. The slaves have been fighting over which notes are correct and what they mean for 1400 years.

      One could be excused for thinking Allah may have passed away with Muhammad. Wouldn’t it be great if the squabbling followers of the legend would also give it a rest until Allah shows up?

      • Oliver says

        Nov 16, 2015 at 8:12 pm

        I think it would be better if the squabbling continued- among themselves; leaving the rest of the world out of it, and they killed each other-each trying to prove that they are the true believers.

        A fight to the last man (or woman or child).

  10. Markus Lukas says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/place-moratorium-all-refugee-resettlement-middle-east-wake-paris-terror-attacks

    Spread the word.

  11. oliver says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    This is nonsense. SEE HONEST REPORTING . THE SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER SAID IT IS ALL ISRAEL’S FAULT.

    AND THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 9 AND THEIR OFFICIAL RAG) ( THE P.A.-RUN BY ABBAS, IN THE 10TH YEAR OF HIS 4 YEAR TERM–YOU KNOW, THE MUSLIM LEADER THAT ISRAEL CAN LIVE WITH-AS PER OBAMA- WHO SAID THAT A PALESTINIAN STATE WOULD BE JEW FREE). (Meanwhile, he cannot get anyone other then Israelis to open factories there-in his paradise; has sky high unemployment; poverty is rampant; and he lives an opulent life style–who does he think he is? Obama?) Anyhow, he said THE PARIS ATTACKS WERE DONE BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT 9 READ IDF/MOSSAD) AND NOT MUSLIMS.

    THE SWEDISH F.M. . WOULD NOT LIE OR BE MISTAKEN WOULD SHE?

    The P. A. also would not lie, right?

    So, it is Israel’s fault.

    If Sweden gets a massacre- good for them. (And if the Swedes are lucky, their FM and the government would be taken out),. My views

  12. More Ham Ed says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    “identified as mastermind of Paris jihad attacks” – Mo HAM MAD was the mastermind, planned well in advance, approx. 1400 years ago.

  13. Angemon says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    “All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow,” Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014.

    Mostly by other muslims, I bet.

  14. mortimer says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    Abdelhamid Abaaoud clearly attached his terrorism to Allah: “I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.”

    Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s vicious prayer is for Allah to exterminate non-Muslims.

    Unless Muslims clearly renounce jihadism before being accepted as immigrants, there is every likelihood many Muslim immigrants will be actual jihadists to AMERICA’S and the WEST’S GREAT DETRIMENT.

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