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uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 03:57 PM Nov 2015

The mystery of missing Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam and the 18th district non-murders

I am trying to find more about this, it looks like information is just coming out. I do not know thesecond source, am looking for more. If true, good for him to not kill more people. I hope they catch him soon, put him in prison and get some information from him.

http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-missing-paris-attacker-salah-abdeslam-162601174.html

Among the many mysteries hanging over the Paris attacks, few are more puzzling than the fate and role of jihadist Salah Abdeslam, subject of an international manhunt since the carnage.

He and his brother Brahim played a key logistical role in the wave of terror that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured, renting cars and hotel rooms where the jihadists could hole up.

Brahim, like another five of the assailants, blew himself up after the bloodshed. A seventh was shot by police. However Salah did not. Instead he was spirited away to Belgium by two other men who were arrested and charged there.

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When Islamic State jihadists issued their claim of responsibility, their statement mentioned the assaults on the stadium, the 10th and 11th districts of Paris, but also the 18th, where no attack took place. However four days later the police found a black Renault Clio, rented in Salah's name, parked partly over a pedestrian crossing in the 18th district...(more)

http://www.heart.co.uk/news/uk-world/paris-terror-fugitive-was-wearing-bomb-belt/#fPuvAQeyTWymYZUq.97

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RTL Belgium reported on theories that Abdeslam had been told to attack the 18th arrondissement in Paris - the Montmartres area - but for some reason had not gone through with it.

In a statement released the day after the attacks, IS spoke of simultaneous attacks in the 10th, 11th and 18th arrondissements by eight "brothers wearing explosive belts".

In the end, seven suicide bombers died and there was no attack on the 18th district.

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The mystery of missing Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam and the 18th district non-murders (Original Post) uppityperson Nov 2015 OP
Thank you, very interesting LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #1
India.com also has the same info. LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #2
I don't want him shot but captured as perhaps he can help prevent other such nastiness uppityperson Nov 2015 #3
That is what I prefer. If they had kept killing psychopaths no one would have ever figured out LiberalArkie Nov 2015 #4

LiberalArkie

(15,713 posts)
4. That is what I prefer. If they had kept killing psychopaths no one would have ever figured out
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 04:27 PM
Nov 2015

how their brains works.

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