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Best Francphone in Syria
Stephen Carroll:
[Sources very careful with not yet confirming this information as certainly known], so far.
Only one source, not at all confirmed, close to the investigation, there may have been planning an attack on the ??La Defense (a neighborhood, a central business area)??
to add to previous info
5 injured police officers injured condition unknown
man and woman arrested nearby
7:30 last explosion was heard
Aurore Cloe Depuis:
Elite police deployed. Security still very heavy.
Nobody has seen this individual on the run, so may have been a false alarm.
According to an official in Town Hall: there may be one or two still holed up.
Operation ongoing.
http://www.france24.com/en/section/france-24/ [adding info not previously]
Via SC, above
Exclusive: Paris attacker may have had accomplice on journey through Balkans
BELGRADE/ATHENS | BY ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC AND LEFTERIS KARAGIANNOPOULOS, REUTERS
posing as a Syrian refugee, counter-intelligence and police sources say.
The assailant may also have reached Paris faster and more easily than expected because asylum seekers were rushed across some national borders at the height of the migration crisis in Europe this year to avoid bottlenecks after Hungary closed its borders, ironically to keep out suspected militants.
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The assailant may also have reached Paris faster and more easily than expected because asylum seekers were rushed across some national borders at the height of the migration crisis in Europe this year to avoid bottlenecks after Hungary closed its borders, ironically to keep out suspected militants.
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The source, who declined to be named, indicated to Reuters that Macedonia was coordinating its action with Greece, and that a companion was with Mohammad by the time they bought ferry tickets taking them to Piraeus on the Greek mainland.
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A Leros travel agent said that on Oct. 4 he issued two tickets costing 51.50 euros ($54.90) each to the men for a ferry departing the following night from the nearby island of Kalymnos, which is reached from Leros by a local service. The 23:10 sailing reached Piraeus on the morning of Oct. 6.
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he owner of the Kastis travel agency in Leros, 42-year-old Dimitris Kastis, remembers selling tickets to Mohammad and a man who was with him. "He didn't do or say anything that caught my attention," Kastis said, adding that both men had paid in cash. He said the man travelling with him had a similar surname.
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Greek media have published a photograph of the second man's ticket which gives his family name as al-Mahmod, and the initial of his given name as M.
he recognised this as the name the second man provided when purchasing the ticket.
The counter-intelligence source in Macedonia said Mohammad was still travelling with a companion two days after reaching Piraeus. They registered together at a refugee camp in the backyard of an old tobacco plant in the Serbian town of Presevo, though Serbian officials have not mentioned an accomplice.
Mohammad then went on to Croatia, either by train or bus, and was registered on Oct. 8 at the Opatovac refugee camp.
Reuters has been unable to determine what route Mohammad took after this, or whether he was accompanied by anyone.
he almost certainly left for Hungary within 24 hours, though Budapest has no record of him entering from Croatia, which at the time was offloading thousands of migrants every day across its northern border with Hungary.
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Mohammad's most likely destination from Hungary would have been Austria.
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But Vienna has confirmed that another of the attackers, Belgian-born Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, entered Austria from Germany on Sept. 9.
[but, not in the right order of text,]
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Grundboeck said it was "conjecture and speculation" that a man going by the name of al-Mohammad had passed through
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bbm
hmm doth protest too much. I bet this could be where they had logistics too since a number seem to have crossed through there and gone back and forth, possibly. All sorts of folks funnel illicit funds through there rather unseen, according to MSM on the subject. IIRC, it's a human trafficking hub of women and girls too, not sure, among other contraband. Who among the operators would need the cover of Austria, as they were Belgian and French? It seems like it could be some cross over point for their operations?
