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German police arrest five Islamic State recruiters, including a “high profile” imam

Nov 8, 2016 6:46 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

A “high-profile Iraqi imam” is among the five suspected Islamic State jihadists arrested. Germany and other Western countries have been infiltrated, and jihad is being taught in mosques in Germany and all over the West, but jihadists are sheltered by charges of “Islamophobia” leveled against those who wish to investigate what is taught in mosques.

Germany is also in the midst of investigating “up to 80 members of its armed forces, after its military intelligence agency found that a number of its enlisted soldiers held radical Islamic beliefs.”

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“German police detain five ‘IS recruiters'”, France24, November 8, 2016:

BERLIN (AFP) – German police on Tuesday arrested five men suspected of links to the Islamic State group, who allegedly sought to recruit fighters for the jihadists.

“The five accused formed a pan-regional Salafist-jihadist network, with the accused Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A. taking on the leading role,” said a statement from the prosecutors’ office.

The 32-year-old Iraqi leader of the group, who also goes by the alias Abu Walaa, is one of the most influential Islamist preachers in Germany, said Ralf Jaeger, interior minister of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

“The aim of the network led by him is to send people to IS in Syria,” said federal prosecutors.

Turkish national Hasan C. and German-Serb Boban S. were allegedly tasked with teaching the recruits Arabic as well as indoctrinating them with Islamist content.

While the group’s leader had the authority to approve and organise any departures to Syria, he allegedly left the actual implementation of the plans to the two other men detained Tuesday, German national Mahmoud O. and Cameroonian Ahmed F.Y.

The five men were arrested in the northern state of Lower Saxony and in North Rhine-Westphalia.

At least one young man and his family has been sent by the network to join IS in Syria, prosecutors added.

Burkhard Freier, who leads North Rhine-Westphalia’s domestic security service, said the group had “no concrete plans of attack.”

The probe will focus on two elements, he said: “first on the radicalisation of young people and secondly, which is something that the investigations must still prove — was there people smuggling, was there ideological conditioning and ideological preparation for a departure to Syria.”

Hasan C. was in contact with two teenagers with Islamist backgrounds who were arrested over an explosion that wounded three people at a Sikh temple in the western city of Essen in April, said Freier.

According to figures released in May by German intelligence services, 820 jihadists have left Germany for Syria and Iraq.

Almost a third have returned and 140 were killed while abroad, while around 420 are still in Syria or Iraq….

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 8, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Burkhard Freier, who leads North Rhine-Westphalia’s domestic security service, said the group had “no concrete plans of attack.”

    The probe will focus on two elements, he said: “first on the radicalisation of young people and secondly, which is something that the investigations must still prove — was there people smuggling, was there ideological conditioning and ideological preparation for a departure to Syria.”

    So they wanted to take jihadis away from Germany. Why not let them keep doing their thing while keeping tabs on them and preparing to pounce if things changed?

  2. gravenimage says

    Nov 8, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    German police arrest five Islamic State recruiters, including a “high profile” imam
    ………………………

    And why not? What is more Islamic than waging violent Jihad?

  3. PRCS says

    Nov 8, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    “leveled against those who wish to investigate what is taught in mosques”
    Mosques, Islamic schools, Muslim homes, etc.

    “soldiers held radical Islamic beliefs”
    Really?
    So, please explain how “radical” Islamic beliefs differ from written, Orthodox Islam.

    When does this kind of nonsense end?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2016 at 11:20 pm

      All good points, PRCS.

  4. eur says

    Nov 9, 2016 at 5:26 am

    Las week two imans were arrested in Spain , yesterday several muslims were arrested in Ceuta .. its our new reality. We allow them enter ==> they try to destroy us.
    Islam delenda est (islam must be destroyed)

  5. Stephanie says

    Nov 9, 2016 at 6:39 am

    Thank you, merkel for your ‘enrichment’ 🙂

    Imported terror!

  6. steve says

    Nov 9, 2016 at 8:25 am

    The German police and army were once very quick to kill women and children who had done nothing wrong. ‘and to gratuitously murder them, crowded by hundreds in the most disgusting,agonising,long drawn out way, using poison GAS. NOW, there is a easily identifiable,’ type’ of man ? [Neanderthal] who HAS killed and raped across Germany, this is the Muslim terrorist and his supporters. Where are these BRAVE German police and army now ?? These terrorist types should be treated as they would have been in the past, tortured, their accomplices rounded up, tortured,THEIR accomplices found,arrested,tortured, ad infinitum…..then eradicated.

    • tom parry says

      Nov 15, 2016 at 6:47 pm

      we can do without the torutue- let he islam have that. As a christian nation we are above torutue=let that be for the muslims in hell- not on earth condemd by man.

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