Jewish museum shooter Mehdi Nemmouche, was Former jailer of the hostages in Syria.

Jewish museum shooter Mehdi Nemmouche, was Former jailer of the hostages in Syria.(LeMonde).[GoogleTranslate].

The author of the quadruple shooting in the Jewish Museum in Brussels on 24mai Mehdi Nemmouche, French jihadist who stayed in Syria in the ranks of the Islamic state (EI), arrested in France and extradited July 29 in Belgium , was the One of the jailers of Western hostages held by the Islamist organization.

This information is the result of information sent in recent months by the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB) to the anti-terrorist section of the floor of Paris . It stemmed mainly testimonies of former hostages French journalists released on April 20.

The memories of those surveyed are not identical. While some suggest "a possibility" , others show greater certainty. These different degrees of appreciation have, apparently, not been a barrier to the transmission of these suspicions to the judiciary by the intelligence service. Especially since the data used also report the presence of Mehdi Nemmouche among the guardians of the old American hostage James Foley, murdered and beheaded on August 20 by the Islamic state.

Mehdi Nemmouche would have been on the detention in Syria of four French journalists, Didier Francois, Edward Elias, Henin and Pierre Nicolas Torres, kidnapped in juin2013.

Since their release, they are regularly consulted by the services of the French secret SID and DGSE. Some witnesses Nemmouche would have been only running basic Islamic State in charge of the organization monitor the Western hostages. He would, however, demonstrated brutality and committed serious acts.Read the full story here.More here.

Notorious French Comedian Dieudonne Investigated For Comments on James Foley Killing.

Notorious French Comedian Dieudonne Investigated For Comments on James Foley Killing. HT: Forward.

French authorities have opened an investigation into a controversial comedian who mocked the killing of U.S. journalist James Foley and showed footage of it in a video.

Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala said that decapitation “symbolizes before anything progress, access to civilisation” in the video that appeared on the internet last month.

The Paris prosector’s office said police were starting a preliminary investigation into Dieudonne on the grounds that he had condoned terrorism.

Foley was beheaded by Islamic State militants last month after being kidnapped while covering the Syrian conflict and held for 20 months. The act caused outrage around the world.

In the video, called “Foley That Was,” Dieudonne said the 2011 killing of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and that of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who was hanged in 2006, never aroused the same indignation as Foley’s death.

“The Rothschild Mafia says no, that’s ok, but James Foley, that’s too much,” Dieudonne says, an apparent but unexplained reference to the prominent Jewish banking family.

It also showed some footage of the killing.

“I think decapitation symbolizes before anything progress, access to civilisation,” he said. “In France, we decapitated people in front of the masses, on the public plazas.”

Dieudonne, 46, has been repeatedly fined for hate speech in France where local authorities in several towns have banned his shows as a threat to public order.

Although he says he is not anti-Semitic, public authorities say he owes more than 65,000 euros in fines related to past convictions for making anti-Semitic comments.

He is also credited with inventing the “quenelle”, a gesture that critics have likened to an inverted Nazi salute and say carries anti-Semitic overtones.

London hip-hop artist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary key suspect in beheading of James Foley.

London hip-hop artist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary key suspect in beheading of James Foley. .(SundayTimes).

A BRITISH hip-hop artist has emerged as a key suspect in the hunt for the killer of the US journalist James Foley.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, from Maida Vale, west London, is understood to have become a crucial part of investigations by counterterrorism police and MI5.

Whitehall and police officials have told The Sunday Times that MI5 is now certain of the identity of the British jihadist who appeared in the beheading video posted by Isis, also known as the Islamic State, last week.

Bary, 23, is the son of an Egyptian-born militant who is awaiting trial on terror charges in New York tied to the deadly 1998 bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Former hostages held by ISIS have said he is one of several jihadists they nicknamed “the Beatles” due to their British accents, with two of his cronies referred to as “George” and “Ringo.”

Bary — who recently tweeted a photo of himself holding up a severed head — was among three Brits identified as possibly being the masked killer known as “John”.

In June, The Sunday Times revealed a threat made by Bary on Twitter. “The lions are coming for you soon you filthy kuffs (infidels),” he wrote. “Beheadings in your own backyard soon.”

Bary, who went to Syria last year to fight in its bloody civil war, has a build, skin tone and ­accent all similar to those of “John,” according to The Telegraph.

Before becoming a jihadist, he was an aspiring rapper known as “L Jinny,” whose music was played on BBC Radio 1. Bary also appeared in music videos posted on YouTube for songs titled Overdose, Flying High and Dreamer.

But he was reportedly radicalised by followers of firebrand ­Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary and walked out of his family’s plush West London home last year, saying he was “leaving everything for the sake of Allah.”

Earlier this month, he was seen in a photo posted to Twitter wearing camouflage clothing and a black balaclava while holding a severed head with his left hand — the same hand “John” is seen using to draw a knife across Foley’s throat in his execution video.

Also under investigation are Abu Hussain Al-Britani, 20, a computer hacker from Birmingham, and Abu Abdullah al-Britani, in his 20s, from Portsmouth, the MailOnline reported.

Mail Online reported that al-Britani was jailed in 2012 for stealing personal information from former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Since joining ISIS’ brutal campaign in Syria al-Britani, real name Junaid Hussian, has worked to fund the ISIS war chest by mounting jihadist cyber attacks on British banks and celebrities.

Other possible identities for “John” include the brother of a British doctor once charged with kidnapping two Western war correspondents, and a former gang member who converted to Islam and travelled to Syria, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported.

A dozen American counterterrorism experts are expected to fly to the UK “within days” to help identify Foley’s killer, the Daily Mail reported.Read the full story here.