French police have arrested 29-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche today in Marseille on suspicion of being the attacker in last weekend’s shootings at the Jewish museum in Brussels.
Nemmouche, a French citizen, was arrested with an assault rifle, and reportedly confessed to the Brussels attack. The big eye-opener, however, is that he had recently returned from Syria.
Nemmouche is one of thousands of Westerners who went to Syria to join jihadist rebel factions, and reportedly fought with al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) while in Syria. France estimates 700 of its citizens alone have fought in Syria.
The attacker’s back-story puts a face to growing fears among European security officials that jihad-enthusiasts who go to fight in Syria will return with an eye on conducting high-profile attacks within the EU.
It’s been three years that Syrian people are suffering and a country been in ruins due to yet another western support for terrorism of a different kind of fascistic nature, nature in barbarism and canabalism which such policy again back fairing on the face of those whom are still supporting the idea. It was the existing French government, the British, the Holland, the Belgium, the German, the Swedish and rest of far right Neo liberal fascism lead by USG whom are in business destroying other nations rights to exist.
We said it before, the source of these elements of destruction are paid by Saudis, Qatari and supported by these government for one reason and one reason only, to destroy the 1970-1990 functioning democracy existed in Europe and elsewhere, what is happening now is a wake up call for people to understand the nature of their government as they are in bed with these Stone Age regime whom are cooperating with these far right regimes to destroy what is left of “once” a functioning democracy.
I don't get why he attacks a Jewish museum though.
WIth that kind of target selection, the "rebels" will have a hard time progressing.
USA sponsored the opposition to Assad. Now we are wondering why terrorist trained in Syria and returned to France is killing people at at the Jewish museum in Brussels. He was simply sponsored by Obama administration.
‘Alleged’ museum attacker? Unless he has confessed. The attack was odd anyway. As El Tonno said, the choice of museum is odd as is the form of the attack. The attacker supposedly used a handgun to kill the two Israelis then took an AK47 out of a bag to kill the witnesses. Surely it would have been quicker and less obvious to have reloaded the pistol with a preloaded magazine? He then would not have needed to carry two bags.
He was a member of al-Qaeda in Syria? Then he is one of us…one of Obama's boys. Chances are we recruited, trained, equipped, transported, and paid him!
Doesn't that put Obama in violation of multiple laws that we know of, and probably some secret laws we do not know of, for supporting terrorism. Isn't a citizen's arrest appropriate?
"thousands of westerners who went to Syria,,,"
Pardon me for saying so, but he wasn't a "westerner" at all.