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Germany: Muslima who returned from Islamic State
plotted jihad massacre at festival
SEP 7, 2023 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
She reportedly had the idea “that parts of the German population should be mass murdered.”
Who warned you that Islamic State returnees could be a threat? We did, repeatedly. But the German political elites knew better, or didn’t care.
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Planned attack: Eight and a half years in prison for IS returnee
Translated from “Anschlag geplant: Achteinhalb Jahre Haft für IS-Rückkehrerin,”
NDR, September 1, 2023
A 34-year-old from Salzgitter has been imprisoned for eight and a half years for membership in the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) and a planned attack on a festival near Hildesheim.
In addition, the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Celle came to the conclusion that Marcia M. is said to have manufactured explosive belts and recruited wives for potential assassins. Before the OLG, Marcia M. had admitted the allegations, as confirmed by a court spokesman. However, the presiding judge accused her of always basing her confession on the current state of the investigation. “What we missed was the tangible remorse and the insight that we had done something wrong.” The verdict is not yet legally binding.
They are said to have distributed IS propaganda and planned an attack. The accused faces up to ten years in prison.
Several attacks on festivals in the planning?
In September 2015, the accused traveled with her husband from Germany to Syria to join IS there. She is said to have joined a women’s battalion, volunteered for suicide bombing and completed gunnery training. She was also accused of planning attacks on music festivals in Germany, so a music festival for children near Frankfurt was under discussion, and a festival in the Hildesheim area could also have been the target of an attack. According to the federal prosecutor, the attacks did not occur because the IS fighters selected for them were unable to leave the country.
The accused had the idea “that parts of the German population should be mass murdered,” said presiding judge Ralf Günther in his almost two-hour verdict. According to the court, the position of the 34-year-old within the IS was significantly higher than that of other IS returnees, who mainly managed the household for their husbands in Syria.
The trial against the 34-year-old began in April. According to the OLG spokesman, the Federal Public Prosecutor had requested a prison sentence of nine years. The defense, on the other hand, had pleaded for a sentence of “no more than three to four years,” according to the spokesman.
Paris Mayor strips Palestinian President Abbas of honour
over Holocaust remarks
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has stripped Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas
of the French capital's highest honour after he made remarks about
the Holocaust that echoed anti-Semitic tropes, her office said on Friday.
Issued on: 08/09/2023 - 16:05; 1 min
By: NEWS WIRES
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a joint press conference with the French President
at the Élysée Presidential Palace in Paris on July 20, 2022. © Ludovic Marin, AFP
Abbas could no longer hold the Grand Vermeil medal after he "justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe" in World War II, her office told AFP.
"The comments you made are contrary to our universal values and the historical truth of the Shoah," Hidalgo said in a letter to Abbas sent on Thursday. "You can therefore no longer hold this distinction."
The text of the letter was published on X, formerly known as Twitter, by Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), an umbrella organisation representing French Jews.
"This important decision honours Paris and the city's ongoing commitment against anti-Semitism," he wrote.
Abbas, 87, claimed Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust because of their "social role" and not religion, saying it was "not true" that "(Adolf) Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews".
Echoing anti-Semitic tropes, he claimed Europeans "fought (the Jews) because of their social role, and not their religion. Because of usury and money".
Abbas made the remarks during a speech late last month before senior members of his Fatah party in Ramallah, and a video of the event surfaced this week.
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
"You (...) justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe during World War II with a clear desire to deny the genocide," Hidalgo said in the letter.
"I vehemently condemn your remarks, no cause can justify revisionism and negationism," she added.
Abbas had been given the award during a 2015 visit to Paris.
A spokesperson for the European Union said "the speech... contained false and grossly misleading remarks about Jews and anti-Semitism".
France's consulate in Jerusalem called the remarks "totally unacceptable".
(AFP)
Police search southwest London park for escaped terror suspect
Daniel Khalife
By Clyde Hughes
Police in Britain were searching for escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife in a park in southwest London Friday.
Photo courtesy Metropolitan Police
Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Police in Britain on Friday searched a London park near where Daniel Khalife escaped from prison as the manhunt for the 21-year-old former British soldier continued.
Richmond Park in southwest London was closed as authorities carried out the search and stationed officers at key entrances and exits while a pair of police helicopters surveyed the skies.
The park is miles away from Wadsworth prison and Sky News reported his mother and sister are believed to have lived in an apartment in the area "until a few years ago."
Richmond Park re-opened later in the day and the BBC reported that the search was not conducted based on specific leads or intelligence but rather due to its location near the prison.
Police were investigating whether guards helped Khalife, who was awaiting a terrorism trial, escape from the prison.
Authorities said Khalife worked in the prison's kitchen and slipped through security at the prison Wednesday morning by dressing as a chef and hanging on to the bottom of a food truck.
Metropolitan Police Counterterrorism Commander Dominic Murphy said he believes Khalife is using the skills he learned as a soldier to evade not only capture but even being seen.
"This was a really busy area of London and we've had no confirmed sightings in any of that information, which is a little unusual, and perhaps a testament to Daniel Khalife's ingenuity in his escape," Murphy said.
"It's important that we remember that we have some of the best militaries in the world here in the U.K. and he was trained. He was a trained soldier -- so ultimately he has skills that perhaps some sections of the public don't have."
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley declined to confirm if notebooks were found in Khalife's cell or how the soldier made the straps he used to attach himself to the underbelly of a food truck that took him out of the prison.
Prosecutors charged Khalife with violations of the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act, as well as with planting a fake explosive device. They accused him of working on behalf of a hostile foreign state while working at the Ministry of Defense's Stafford station.
Khalife disappeared from Stafford in January after reportedly planting a fake bomb but was captured several days later.
It's curious! Daniel is a Judeo-Christian name but Khalife is Muslim.
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