AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW Abdeslam, Chakib Akrouh, Ahmad al-Mohammed, M al-Mahmod, Omar Ismail Mostefai, Sami 233 Amimour, Foued Mohammed Aggad [fellow Paris attackers]. Other: 234 235 -! Samir Zarioh [A French national, Zarioh was arrested on 29 November 2015 whilst trying to fly to Morocco. He is believed to be part of Hadfi’s group, and had tried to travel to 236 237 Syria twice previously]; Pierre Ndjeka [Belgian national arrested on 29 November 2015 238 suspected of involvement in recruiting jihadists for Syria. Detained after a search on his 239 Molenbeek home, he is also thought to be part of Hadfi’s group]. 240 AHMED AL-MOHAMED aka Ukasah al-Iraqi Role: 241 Suicide bomber at the Stade de France during the Paris attacks. Bio: 242 Al-Mohamed’s real identity is unknown. IS propaganda magazine, Dabiq, may have identified 243 Mohamed as an Iraqi, under the alias Ukasah al-Iraqi. Foreign training/combat: Unknown. Movements: It is believed that al-Mohamed entered Europe as an asylum seeker two months before the attack and his fingerprints matched those taken under the same name in Greece in October 2015. He 244 was carrying a fake Syrian passport during the attack and the passport’s use in registration shows that al- Mohamed travelled through Leros, Greece on 3 October 2015, Serbia on 7 October, Croatia on 8 October and then Austria, finally ending up in Paris. The Greek authorities report that before arriving in Greece he had come from Turkey, arriving in a migrant boat. It is also reported that he travelled through 245 Hungary. Criminal history: Unknown. Known to the authorities: Unknown. Network and associates: -! Paris attacks (November 2015): Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Salah Abdeslam, Brahim Abdeslam, Chakib Akrouh, Bilal Hadfi, M al-Mahmod, Omar Ismail Mostefai, Sami Amimour, Foued 246 Mohammed Aggad [fellow Paris attackers]. ! ! 233 ‘Paris attacks: Who were the attackers?’, BBC News, 27 April 2016. 234 ‘La galaxie djihadiste’, Le Parisien, available at: http://atelier.leparisien.fr/galaxie-djihadiste/profil.php?id=P092, last visited: 9 August 2016. 235 ibid. 236 Samuel, H., ‘Belgian police hunt two 'armed and dangerous' new terror suspects over Paris attacks’, The Telegraph, 4 December 2016, available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/12034240/Belgian-police-hunt-two-armed-and-dangerous-new-terror-suspects-over-Paris-attacks.html, last visited: 9 August 2016. 237 ‘La galaxie djihadiste: Pierre Ndjeka’, Le Parisien, available at: http://atelier.leparisien.fr/galaxie-djihadiste/profil.php?id=P095, last visited: 9 August 2016. 238 ibid. 239 Samuel, H., ‘Belgian police hunt two 'armed and dangerous' new terror suspects over Paris attacks’, The Telegraph, 4 December 2016. 240 Paton, C., ‘Paris attacks: Islamic State's Dabiq magazine identifies two Stade de France suicide bombers as Iraqis’, International Business Times, 20 January 2016, available at: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-islamic-states-dabiq-magazine-identifies-two-stade-de-france-suicide-bombers-1538995, last visited: 9 August 2016. 241 Farmer, B. et al., ‘Who is Salah Abdeslam and who were the Paris terrorists? Everything we know about the Isil attackers’, The Telegraph, 18 March 2016. 242 ibid. 243 Paton, C., ‘Paris attacks: Islamic State's Dabiq magazine identifies two Stade de France suicide bombers as Iraqis’, International Business Times, 20 January 2016. 244 Farmer, B. et al., ‘Who is Salah Abdeslam and who were the Paris terrorists? Everything we know about the Isil attackers’, The Telegraph, 18 March 2016. 245 ibid. 246 ‘Paris attacks: Who were the attackers?’, BBC News, 27 April 2016. ! ! 24 !
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