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'''Abdelhamid Abaaoud''' or '''Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud''' is a 27 year old [[Belgium|Belgian]] national of Moroccan origin who French investigators believe masterminded the [[mass murder in Paris]] of 13 November 2015 which killed at least 129 people.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/abdelhamid-abaaoud-suspected-mastermind-of-paris-terror-attacks "Paris attacks 'mastermind' Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud: what we know"]</ref> On 19 November 2015, Abaaoud's death was announced by the Paris prosecutor following a police shootout during a raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.
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French Interior Minister [[Bernard Cazeneuve]] said that of six terror plots foiled by the security services since the spring, Abaaoud was involved in four of them. He said the French authorities had not known before the attacks that Abaaoud, an [[Islamic State]] jihadi from Belgium, was in France. The government had only heard about his whereabouts on Monday after a tip-off from an intelligence service outside Europe, Cazeneuve said. Before then, he was thought to be in Syria.<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/news/abdelhamid-abaaoud-the-life-and-crimes-of-paris-mastermind "Abdelhamid Abaaoud: the life and crimes of Paris mastermind"]</ref>
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'''Abdelhamid Abaaoud''' or '''Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud''' is a 27 year old [[Belgium|Belgian]] national of Moroccan origin who was named by French investigators as responsible for the [[mass murder in Paris]] of 13 November 2015 which killed at least 129 people.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/abdelhamid-abaaoud-suspected-mastermind-of-paris-terror-attacks "Paris attacks 'mastermind' Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud: what we know"]</ref> On 19 November 2015, Abaaoud's death was announced by the Paris prosecutor following a police shootout during a raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.{{cn}}
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==
Abdelhamid Abaaoud grew up in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels known for its many Arab immigrants, blighted by high unemployment and overcrowded housing. He is an associate of [[Salah Abdeslam]], who is on the run and whose brother Brahim blew himself up in Paris.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/abdelhamid-abaaoud-belgian-man-identified-as-suspected-mastermind-of-paris-attacks-a6735871.html "Abdelhamid Abaaoud: What we know about Belgian man identified as suspected Paris attacks 'mastermind'"]</ref>
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud grew up in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels known for its many Arab immigrant. ''[[The Independent]]'' stated that he is an associate of [[Salah Abdeslam]], whose brother Brahim died in the Paris attack.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/abdelhamid-abaaoud-belgian-man-identified-as-suspected-mastermind-of-paris-attacks-a6735871.html "Abdelhamid Abaaoud: What we know about Belgian man identified as suspected Paris attacks 'mastermind'"]</ref>
 
 
Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam were both jailed in Belgium in 2010 for armed robbery.<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/news/paris-terror-attacks-who-are-the-suspects "Paris terror attacks: who are the suspects?"]</ref> But Abaaoud - alias Abu Umar al-Baljiki - joined [[IS]] in early 2013. It is not clear when he became radicalised. The ''Associated Press'' reports that he attended one of Belgium's top secondary schools - Saint-Pierre d'Uccle. He was in contact with [[Mehdi Nemmouche]], a jihadist of Franco-Algerian origin, who shot and killed four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014.
 
  
Nemmouche had also spent time in Molenbeek - an area where, Belgian officials admit, the radical Salafist ideology has flourished among some young Muslims. In recent years, Molenbeek has had "the highest concentration of foreign terrorist fighters in Europe", said Liesbeth van der Heide, at Leiden University's Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism in the Netherlands. More jihadists have gone to fight in [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]] from Belgium than from any other EU country, per head of population.
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Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam were both jailed in Belgium in 2010 for armed robbery.<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/news/paris-terror-attacks-who-are-the-suspects "Paris terror attacks: who are the suspects?"]</ref>
  
 
==Terror cell==
 
==Terror cell==
Belgian authorities suspect that Abaaoud helped organise and finance a terror cell in Verviers, eastern Belgium. It was broken up in a police raid in January. Two jihadists were killed in Verviers - identified by IS later as [[Khalid Ben Larbi]] (alias Abu Zubayr, 23) and [[Soufiane Amghar]] (alias Abu Khalid, 26).
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Belgian authorities have suggested that Abaaoud may have helped helped organise and finance a terror cell in Verviers, eastern Belgium.{{cn}}
 
 
In an interview published by the IS English-language magazine ''Dabiq'' in February, Abaaoud talked about the Verviers incident. He said he had secretly returned to Belgium with the other two, and they had "set up a safe house while we planned to carry out operations against the crusaders":
 
:"The intelligence knew me from before as I had been previously imprisoned by them," he said, boasting that he had still managed to slip away after the Verviers raid. "I was even stopped by an officer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance! This was nothing but a gift from Allah."
 
  
 
==Foiled attack==
 
==Foiled attack==
An IS propaganda video in 2014 showed Abaaoud in a vehicle that was dragging mutilated bodies behind it. Abaaoud was also linked to a foiled terror attack aboard a Thalys train in August this year. A gunman, [[Ayoub El-Khazzani]], was overpowered by passengers aboard the train in northern France. In that case, and in a foiled attack on a church in Villejuif, France, investigators listed Abaaoud as a suspect.
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An IS propaganda video in 2014 showed Abaaoud in a vehicle that was dragging mutilated bodies behind it.{{cn}} Abaaoud was also linked to a foiled terror attack aboard a Thalys train in August this year. A gunman, [[Ayoub El-Khazzani]], was overpowered by passengers aboard the train in northern France. In that case, and in a foiled attack on a church in Villejuif, France, investigators listed Abaaoud as a suspect.{{cn}}
 
 
==Devoted to jihad==
 
Abaaoud was so devoted to jihad that he persuaded his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34835046 "Paris attacks: Key suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud"]</ref>
 
  
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The ''[[BBC]]'' stated that Abaaoud persuaded his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34835046 "Paris attacks: Key suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud"]</ref>
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Revision as of 06:27, 22 November 2015

Person.png Abdelhamid AbaaoudRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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DiedNovember 2015 (Age 27)
Supposed perpetrator of2015-11 Paris attacks
The official "mastermind" behind the mass murder in Paris

Abdelhamid Abaaoud or Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud is a 27 year old Belgian national of Moroccan origin who was named by French investigators as responsible for the mass murder in Paris of 13 November 2015 which killed at least 129 people.[1] On 19 November 2015, Abaaoud's death was announced by the Paris prosecutor following a police shootout during a raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.[citation needed]

Background

Abdelhamid Abaaoud grew up in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels known for its many Arab immigrant. The Independent stated that he is an associate of Salah Abdeslam, whose brother Brahim died in the Paris attack.[2]

Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam were both jailed in Belgium in 2010 for armed robbery.[3]

Terror cell

Belgian authorities have suggested that Abaaoud may have helped helped organise and finance a terror cell in Verviers, eastern Belgium.[citation needed]

Foiled attack

An IS propaganda video in 2014 showed Abaaoud in a vehicle that was dragging mutilated bodies behind it.[citation needed] Abaaoud was also linked to a foiled terror attack aboard a Thalys train in August this year. A gunman, Ayoub El-Khazzani, was overpowered by passengers aboard the train in northern France. In that case, and in a foiled attack on a church in Villejuif, France, investigators listed Abaaoud as a suspect.[citation needed]

The BBC stated that Abaaoud persuaded his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.[4]

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