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NO. 15950 44 PAGES 150 FILSemergency number 112MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2015 / SAFAR 4, 1437 AH
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People gather around the Monument a la Republique at the Place de la Republiquein Paris, on Nov 15, two days after a series of deadly attacks. Islamic State jihadistsclaimed the series of coordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Parison Nov 13 that killed at least 129 people in scenes of carnage at a concert hall,
restaurants and the national stadium. (Inset): This handout picture released in a‘appel a temoins’ (call for witnesses) by the French Police information service(SICOP) on Nov 15, shows a picture of Salah Abdeslam, suspected of beinginvolved in the attacks that occurred on Nov 13, in Paris. (AFP)
Belgian connections to Paris
Molenbeek district linked to past attacksBRUSSELS, Nov 15, (RTRS):Belgian police arrested threepeople on Saturday in raids in apoor, immigrant quarter ofBrussels as they pursued emerg-ing links between the Parisattacks and an Islamist bastion inFrance’s northern neighbour.
Prime Minister CharlesMichel said at least one of thoseheld from the inner Brusselsneighbourhood of Molenbeekwas believed to have spent theprevious evening in Paris, wheretwo cars registered in Belgiumwere impounded close to scenesof some of the violence, includ-ing the Bataclan music hall.
“Police operations will go on,”Michel told RTL television afterlate-night police raids inMolenbeek, west of the city cen-tre, which is home to manyMuslims, notably families origi-nally from Morocco and Turkey.His interior minister spoke impa-tiently of going in to “clean up”Molenbeek.
“We’re talking about a net-work,” the borough’s mayor,Francoise Schepmans, said onSunday, referring to a total offive arrests in Molenbeek.
A French prosecutor said a carhired in Belgium was linked tothe attacks and that a Frenchmanliving in Brussels rented it andwas later stopped early onSaturday at the Belgian border.
A parking ticket issued inMolenbeek was found in the hirecar in Paris. Officials declinedcomment on reports that theattacks may have been largelyplotted in Brussels, that one ofthree attack teams came fromthere and that at least three of theattackers were based in theEuropean Union capital.
Proportional to its 11 millionpopulation, of whom half a mil-lion are Muslim, Belgium hasbeen the European countrywhich has contributed the mostforeign fighters to the civil warin Syria — over 300 by officialestimates a year ago — and it hasfigured in many Islamist attacks
Opinion
By Ahmed Al-JarallahEditor-in-Chief, the Arab Times
WE said it before that divisionbetween Arabs was the first rea-son behind the spread of terror-ism. Today, we continue to saythat global hesitance plays amajor role in the spread of thisplague (terrorism) which hitFrance recently.
Before France, it hit theUnited States of America, Spain,Russia and it will continue aslong as temporary interests areupheld at the expense of therights of the people to life andpeace. It will continue to kill theinnocent in Pakistan,Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq,Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Egypt,Libya and Tunisia.
Indeed, an Arab and Islamicenvironment was formed bypolitical movements that claimto be Islamic. However, the real‘incubator’ is Europe itself —currently being burned by itsown fire — which expounded ontheir human rights slogans andwhat is known as, “listening tovoices of the Arab opposition”,which secured the survival of theextremists by giving them shel-ter, podium, protection and eventheir nationalities. In fact, thewestern countries helped thesegroups (extremists) rise to powerin some Arab countries.
The events that took place inrecent years in France, and gen-erally in Europe, were what for-mer Egyptian president HosniMubarak warned about in Parisin 2007. However, instead ofcomprehending the message, theFrench decision-makers went onto describe what Mubarak saw as“global terrorism”, to be just“reactions to Egypt’s oppressionof the opposition, especially theMuslim Brotherhood.”
What happened after eightyears was the outcome of theencouraging stance on terrorism.In fact, before all that, wasn’tFrance marketed as ImamKhomaini’s revolutionaryscheme on the Shah under thepretext of Islamic Revolution byrendering him to practice politi-cal instigation and provided himsupport? Wasn’t France the firstone to burn with the flame of‘Iranian revolution terrorism’through the assassinationattempts on former Iranian offi-cials on its land?
Didn’t the United Kingdommake its land a Brotherhoodarena, followed by al-Qaeda andTaleban, among other terroristgroups whose elements reacheda point of considering them-selves at war with the UK?Wasn’t in 2005 when Londontasted the pain inflicted by thesegroups through an explosionwhich led to the loss of scores ofinnocent lives?
Didn’t the United State ofAmerica call for listening to thevoices of these people a long
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Exterminate them...before they exterminate youBrothers, Belgium...1 on-the-run,arrests as France pursues probe
PARIS, Nov 15, (AFP):Belgium issued aninternational arrestwarrant Sunday forone of three brotherslinked to the brutalattacks in Paris thatkilled 129 people, asthe probe spreadacross Europe.
As thousands gathered incentral Paris in mourning andsolidarity, authorities in atleast five European countriesscrambled to tie togetherleads and hunt down possibleaccomplices.
Security sources said one ofthe three brothers died in theBataclan concert hall where theworst of the bloodshed tookplace, while another had beendetained along with six otherpeople in Belgium.
Seven gunmen wearing sui-cide belts died during the attacks,which have been claimed by theIslamic State group — either atthe Stade de France stadium, orin and around the Bataclanvenue.
The sports minister said atleast one of the bombers whodetonated their explosives nearthe stadium had tried to enter thevenue where France were play-ing Germany in an internationalfootball match at the time.
Prosecutors say they believethree groups of attackers wereinvolved in the Paris carnage,raising the possibility that onegroup may still be at large.
It is now known that three ofthe suicide bombers were Frenchnationals, but two of the men hadlived in the Belgian capitalBrussels.
Two cars used in the attackswere hired in Belgium. One wasquickly found near the Bataclanvenue, and one overnight onSaturday in the suburb ofMontreuil east of Paris, with twoAK47 rifles inside.
Witnesses said the second car,a black Seat, was used by gun-men who shot dozens of peoplein bars and restaurants in the hipCanal St Martin area of Paris.
The first attacker to be namedby investigators is Omar IsmailMostefai, a 29-year-old fatherand French citizen, who wasidentified from a severed fingeramong the carnage at theBataclan, where 89 people werekilled after heavily armed men inwearing explosives vestsstormed into the venue.
French police, meanwhile,released a photograph of a sus-pect in the Paris attacks, naminghim as 26-year-old SalahAbdeslam, who is also under aninternational arrest warrantissued by Belgium.
Asking for any informationleading to his capture, the alertsaid Abdeslam “may have beeninvolved in the Paris attacks” andwarned that he is considered a“dangerous individual”.
Police detained six peopleclose to Mostefai, including hisfather, brother and sister-in-law,judicial sources said.
Born in the modest Paris sub-urb of Courcouronnes, he hadeight convictions for pettycrimes but had never served aprison sentence.
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Kuwait Towers Saturday evening wasseen lit in the French national colors ofblue and red in solidarity with France
after the terror attacks in Paris.
Kuwaitis safeKuwait Ambassador to France SamiAl-Sulaiman has confirmed noKuwaiti citizens were among victimsof Friday’s attacks in Paris, which left129 people killed and 352 othersinjured.
“The French authorities have con-firmed no Kuwaiti citizens among thevictims of the Paris attacks,” Al-Sulaiman said in a statement toKUNA Saturday night.
He said the “Embassy and theFrench health authorities were veri-fying if there are Kuwaiti citizensamong the injured because of thelarge number of the wounded whowere admitted in many hospitals.”Al-Sulaiman commended the coop-eration shown by the Frenchauthorities with the embassy.(KUNA)
Suspect in beheading of Coptics
F-15 kills head of IS LibyaWASHINGTON, Nov 15, (AFP): An F-15fighter jet strike killed the head of the IslamicState group in Libya, the Pentagon saidSaturday, in another high-profile US hit fol-lowing the targeting of the most-wanted“Jihadi John.”
The announcement comes as the extremistgroup said it was responsible for Friday’sattacks in Paris that killed at least 129 peopleduring an onslaught of bombings and shootingson the French capital, though the Pentagon saidthe two events were not connected.
Washington has orchestrated an air cam-paign going after the IS group and senior fig-ures in Syria and Iraq, but this is the first USstrike against an IS leader in Libya.
Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm AbdZayd al-Zubaydi, was the senior IS leader inLibya and may also have been the spokesmanin a grisly video showing the execution ofCoptic Christians, Pentagon spokesman PeterCook said in a statement.
Cook described Abu Nabil as an Iraqi nation-al and al-Qaeda operative.
The footage released by IS online earlier thisyear showed handcuffed hostages wearingorange jumpsuits being beheaded by black-suited captors in a coastal area the group saidwas in the Libyan province of Tripoli.
“Nabil’s death will degrade ISIL’s ability tomeet the group’s objectives in Libya, includingrecruiting new ISIL members, establishingbases in Libya, and planning external attacks
on the United States,”Cook said.
“While not the first USstrike against terrorists inLibya, this is the first USstrike against an ISILleader in Libya and itdemonstrates we will goafter ISIL leaders wher-ever they operate.”
The Pentagonspokesman said the oper-
ation overnight against Abu Nabil was “autho-rized and initiated prior to the terrorist attack inParis.”
Oil-rich Libya descended into chaos after thefall of Muammar Gadaffi in its 2011 revolution.
IS jihadists are killing more civilians thanother warring factions in the North Africancountry, but all sides are committing “large-scale crimes,” International Criminal Courtchief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said.
The UN has been brokering talks to create anew unity government to end fighting betweenthe army and the militias that seized Tripoli,with the UN envoy to Libya voicing hope thatan agreement is imminent.
Saturday’s US announcement came two daysafter the US military conducted a strike target-ing the IS executioner known as “Jihadi John.”
The US has said it is “reasonably certain”
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KUWAIT CITY: The Public Prosecution has issued an inter-national arrest warrant against the former general director ofthe Public Institution for Social Security Fahad Al-Rajaanand a prison sentence in absentia against him on charges ofmanipulation with the institution’s funds.
The prosecution said in a statement that it had concludedinvestigations into the case involving Al-Rajaan and anemployee for “inflicting grave harm on the funds” of the insti-tution.
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