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WORLD NEWS 9
Saturday 12 March 2016

German broadcaster: IS files refer to some Paris attackers

Kings College in London. works and how they relate It said that Abaaoud ap-
Maher has seen a bulk to one another. And a lot parently acted under a
of the files. He said while of the information we’ve pseudonym, Abu Omar Al-
it would be unusual for seen on the documents Beliki, to vouch for the entry
women to be recruited as correspondents to what of another French Islamist.
fighters, women may have we have on our databases An initial analysis of the
been listed as personal ref- which leads us to believe documents found no en-
erences. the documents are au- try form for Abaaoud, WDR
“One of the key things thentic.” added.
about these documents is In the documents, Ami- The documents also
that they contain names of mour, Mohamed-Aggad showed that at least 14
people who have vouched and Mostefai said only that men from France crossed
for the recruits,” Maher said. they wanted to fight for IS the Turkish-Syrian border
“By cross-checking these when they arrived, though on Dec. 18, 2013 with the
names against the informa- it was possible to tick an same smuggler and were
tion we have already, we’ll option on the form to be a vouched for by a single ex-
be likely to piece together suicide attacker, WDR re- tremist of Moroccan origin,
a detailed picture of IS net- ported. it said.

Demonstrators carry al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial
government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of
Baghdad, Iraq. Germany’s federal criminal police said Thurs-
day, March 10, 2016 they are in possession of files containing
personal data on members of the extremist Islamic State group
and believe them to be authentic.

(AP Photo)

PAISLEY DODDS the broadcaster said the
GEIR MOULSON files contain an apparent
Associated Press reference to Abdelhamid
LONDON (AP) — A cache Abaaoud, who has been
of leaked documents con- identified as the architect
taining the names of re- of the Nov. 13 attacks in
cruits into the Islamic State Paris, in which 130 people
group includes references were killed.
to several of the men who The IS files that surfaced in
carried out the November various outlets this week
attacks in Paris, a German contain names of poten-
broadcaster reported Fri- tial fighters, personal refer-
day. Security officials and ences, telephone numbers
counterterrorism analysts and other detailed infor-
said the cache could pro- mation. The leak, which
vide valuable clues into contains names of people
how the group lures follow- from more than 50 coun-
ers and how vast its global tries, also stands to height-
recruiting networks are. en suspicion among fol-
German broadcaster WDR lowers. Similar leaks within
says that it, along with the other terror affiliates have
daily Sueddeutsche Zei- created fissures in Pakistan
tung and fellow broad- and elsewhere in the past.
caster NDR, have obtained Some of the documents in-
some 22,000 IS documents. cluded names of women,
On Friday, WDR reported but neither their nationali-
that the files document the ties nor their roles were im-
entry into IS territory in 2013 mediately known, accord-
and 2014 of Paris attackers ing to Shiraz Maher, a se-
Samy Amimour, Foued Mo- nior research fellow at the
hamed-Aggad and Ismael International Centre for the
Omar Mostefai. In addition, Study of Radicalization at