Two policemen detain Lachen Ikassrien last June. / Alvaro García (COUNTRY)
The jihadist recruitment network headed by former Guantanamo detainee Lahcen Ikassrien established his main fishing ground of followers in the mosque of the M-30, most of Madrid. The cafeteria of the center of worship became the basis of recruitment and indoctrination of Islamist fighters bound for Iraq and Syria, as is apparent from the order of the judge of the National Hearing Pablo Ruz, which yesterday indicted 15 members of the band, disjointed last June. Relatives of network members confirmed to investigators the process of radicalization of those after contacting the Salafi circles of Madrid mosque.
They called each Brigade Al-Andalus and were leaving a noticeable trace of their Jihadist activity in papers, videos and social networks. This applies to Hicham Chentouf, who joined the Islamic State in Syria in the fall of 2013. This young man began to attend the Islamic Cultural Center of Madrid (the mosque of the M-30) in 2010. After a year of contact with network Ikassrien, Hicham grew a beard and embraced the thesis of more rigorista Islam, until he was appointed imam of the mosque of Yunquera de Henares (Guadalajara). In June 2014, he hung on his Facebook profile, a permit from the military emir of ISIS in Homs (Syria) to leave one week of combat. Months earlier, in February, published a picture of him on the social network with an AK-47 rifle.
A similar case is that of Ismail Afalah, who last May, after a year of attendance at the mosque M-30 with the operating band leader, Omar El Harchi, called the settlement in the company where he worked and joined the ranks of EI in Syria. His parents thought their child was on vacation.
The group was allegedly led by Lahcen Ikassrien, former member of the Abu Dah Dah cell and spent four years in the US detention center at Guantanamo after being captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and was acquitted after trial in Spain in 2006. In the indictment, 49 pages, Judge Ruz peels the distribution of tasks within the organization, active since 2011 and came to have a farm to training fighters near Avila. The judge described Ikassrien, 46, as “charismatic leader” of Salafist group, a kind of ideologue who was supplemented by Omar El Harchi, operational leader, dump in financial tasks and recruitment, first mosque in M -30 and from 2013 in Tetouan (Morocco). Two members of the group, Abdellatif El Morabet and Bilal El Helka, died in combat in Syria in 2012.
In the home of Ikassrien, in the Salamanca district of Concepción, the agents of the General Information Office they found numerous handwritten documentation for the indoctrination of future Islamist fighters. One element that highlights the magistrate in resolution is a poem extolling the figure of Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda who ordered the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, and a letter from his handwriting in which expresses the recruiter, also prosecuted, Nabil Benazzou that “it is an obligation to do Jihad”.
In addition to the papers, to be seized Ikassrien training videos members of the Islamic State, archives audio jihadists hymns and at least four CDs incitement to war against non-Muslims. In addition to the crime of a terrorist organization as leader, punishable by up to 12 years in prison, to Ikassrien he is charged forgery, since the registry was involved a Spanish residence permit with his name and photograph but whose number match that of another person. The alleged gang leader said he bought this paper to its owner for 300 euros.
The great organizer of the group was, however, Omar El Harchi. According to the indictment, this “subject radical” active “one of the circles of the mosque of the M-30″ and indoctrinated caught the two fighters killed in Syria. The Harchi was who paid cash airline tickets with which the Morabet and The Helka traveled to Turkey to enter Syria.
The Harchi becomes, according Ruz, in the “figure of reference” the displacement of the jihadists to areas of conflict. Together with his deputy, Nabil Benazzou, planned to travel to Syria and from there to organize the input of other members of the band in one of the subsidiaries of Al Qaeda in that country at war.
Days before it Operation triggered Gala against jihadist network Ikassrien, Nabil Benazzou destroyed many of compromising papers. However, he forgot USB computer memory type with videos and jihadists proclamations of all kinds. One of these videos shows a woman, identified with the name of Fatima, which has the alleged violations and abuses suffered by prisoners in the prison of Abu Graibh, the US military in Iraq. In the video, according to the car, this woman “calls upon the mujahideen to being killed them and their rapists” and to “rest”. Another video aims to “convey the idea that suicide operations are a primary obligation against other religious obligations”.
Another alias adoctrinador course, Mohamed Bouyakhlef, Mohamed El Grande , possessed another USB memory on your nightstand. This device contains videos of extreme violence, as the beheading of an army commander of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or the murder of three people accused of apostasy home.
The judge will Ruz statement to members network arrested in Spain before finally sending them to trial.
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