Emir arrested, ‘MASTERMIND’ of backpacker beheadings, 18 jihadis now under arrest in brutal murders of female tourists in Morocco

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Morocco’s counterterrorism chief said Monday that five more people have been arrested in connection with the horrific ISIS-inspired murders of two Scandinavian hikers in the High Atlas mountains, including the so-called “emir” who masterminded the killings.

This is not one lone jihadi, this is an army led by an Emir.

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‘Mastermind’ of backpacker beheadings arrested, Moroccan officials say

By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News December 25, 2018:

Morocco’s counterterrorism chief said Monday that five more people have been arrested in connection with the horrific ISIS-inspired murders of two Scandinavian hikers in the High Atlas mountains, including the so-called “emir” who masterminded the killings.

Abdelhak Khiam, the head of the country’s central office for judicial investigation, identified the alleged ringleader to Agence France-Presse as Abdessamad Ejjoud, a 25-year-old street vendor who lived on the outskirts of Marrakech. Khiam said Ejjoud had “formed a kind of cell that discussed how to carry out a terrorist act inside the kingdom … targeting the security services or foreign tourists.”

A total of 18 people have been arrested in the murders of 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland and 24-year-old Dane Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, whose bodies were found Dec. 17. Khaim said three of those arrested had terror-related criminal records.

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Ejjoud was believed to have carried out the murders along with 33-year-old Abderrahim Khayali, 27-year-old Younes Ouaziyad and 33-year-old Rachid Afatti. Investigators have said the four men shot a video the week before the murders in which they pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. However, Khiam told AFP the four had not had contact with ISIS leaders “in conflict zones, whether in Syria, Iraq or Libya.”

Nine of the 18 men were arrested on Friday. Officials said they were heading to the area where the women were beheaded with the intent to commit a crime. According to Boubker Sabik, a spokesman for the Moroccan security and domestic intelligence services, investigators found electronic devices, knives, bomb-making materials and unauthorized rifles.

The killings have shocked Morocco, which has seen relatively few acts of terror compared to its North African and Middle Eastern neighbors. On Saturday, hundreds of people took part in a candlelit vigil outside the Norwegian and Danish embassies in the capital, Rabat. Some carried flowers, while others held banners that said “Sorry.”

“Words cannot describe this barbaric crime,” said Khalil Bensalmi, in his fifties, who came to the vigil with his two daughters. “This doesn’t at all represent Moroccan society or its pacifist culture.”

Ratiba Naji, a housewife, tried to hold back her emotions as she said, “It’s horrendous. These girls deserve life. Their parents must be devastated. I am sorry.”

The killings marked the first terrorist attack to hit Morocco since 2011, when a suicide bomber detonated in Marrakech and killed 16 people.

More than 1,000 Moroccans have joined ISIS in recent years, and Moroccan authorities arrested 20 cells with terrorist affiliations between 2017 and 2018.

Police at the scene of the double murder of the two students who were camping
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C078342
C078342
5 years ago

How could anyone harm these two young ladies? I suppose it didn’t help they were blue-eyed blondes .. but still? In this case, I go with an eye for an eye and then some. Castration, loss of the nose and ears, tongue for a start to throat splitting after a few days.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

“Morrocan pacifist” culture? There is no peace in a society in which the unjust Muhammadist blasphemy-law oppresses atheists, in which girls are forced to undergo the lifelong-lasting torture of clitodirectomy & in which children are beaten & indoctrinated into the unjust Muhammad-law.
Just south of Morocco is the country with the highest slavery index. In Mauritania where 20 percent of the population are indigenous Africans force-bred for slavery controlled by Arabs.
Unjust Muhammad started the global African slave-trade by declaring his unproven deity had turned Africans black so African’s descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks. Today Africans are enslaved from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania. The unjust Muhammadism is an insult to Africans & humanity has no right to be in Africa or anywhere.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Wizzy

Yet you will find Black people like Calypso Louie Fairykan following the cult that wants to enslave them.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

” … while others held banners that said ‘Sorry ‘.”
Yes … Those moslems are “sorry” that they didn’t get in on it. Foul, vile, filthy, foul smelling vermin … moslems …. one and all.

Warmac9999
Warmac9999
5 years ago

The Denmark and Norway governments have a responsibility to deal with their Muslim problem. No more flowers and sympathy cards. Very direct action against their Muslim populations is needed. Close mosques and accelerate deportations, especially of arrested Muslims awaiting trial. Muslims in these countries fear nothing and will not integrate. They must be forced as a community to pay the price for Islamic violence against native Danes and Norwegians.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Warmac9999

Tears, flowers, teddy bears, candles and vigils are making me angry.
It’s time for people to DO SOMETHING beyond this………….

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Amen

volksnut
volksnut
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Handcuff the psychopaths and put them in a locked room with those womens relatives and give their relatives baseball bats – then post that video.

Pablo Descartes
Pablo Descartes
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Prostitution is illegal phoebe.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  Warmac9999

If only.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
5 years ago

He should suffer the same death the girls received.
Slow and painful with all the fear the girls felt.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

Instead in no time they will be on the streets again. After all, according to the Koran, they have committed no crime. The girls were infidels and refused to convert to Islam so they had the right to butcher them. Some filthy ragheaded lawyer will come up with that or similar defence.

BlackBeardsGhost
BlackBeardsGhost
5 years ago

A five pound stone would be sufficient to finish off these brutal pigs, who needs a knife.
If anything the girls deaths may have prevented dozens if not hundreds of others from being slain by these Satanic monsters.

Pablo Descartes
Pablo Descartes
5 years ago

You make a good point, it reads like they were gearing for something larger but were caught up by a convenient opportunity. Now the moles go back in their holes to hide & wait.

paracelsus
paracelsus
5 years ago

The King of Morocco is very concerned.
He’s going to lose a lot of tourist income

katmanwon
katmanwon
5 years ago

For every Jew that dies 118 Muslims should perish as an eye for an eye b/c there are more Muslims living in the world today – the percentage needs to be weighted – as that is fair.
It is the same for the Christians! How many Christians in the world? How many Muslims?

Again ALL MUSLIMS need to be banished from the Western societies as NONE CAN BE TRUSTED
– plus they offer nothing of value – other than disease, rape, murder. THEY lower wages b/c they are unskilled –
I DON’T CARE THAT THEY WANT a BETTER LIFE – MAKE IT BETTER WHERE YOU LIVE.
Don’t KILL, murder & rape the people that wanted to help you! You made your bed – NOW LIVE IN IT!
SCREW YOUR I’M FROM TEXAS.

John Acord
John Acord
5 years ago

Meanwhile, back in Denmark and Norway, the media and academia will continue to proclaim that Islam is the “religion of peace.”

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

He and his gang should be sent back to Norway and the Danes. Who will promptly apologize to them and offer jobs working in the Parliament, handling security and their computers and complete passwords to the entire system.

So, on second thought….., Hand them over to Lorena Bobbitt and to that German scientist that likes to skin humans and soak them in plastic to display to the public.

volksnut
volksnut
5 years ago

No Bobbitt will only cut their dicks off – they should all be decapitated.

Poppey
Poppey
5 years ago

Readers must not confuse arrests with convictions and imprisonment over there, this is Morocco we’re talking about and it’s a society broken by sharia.

The regime fears the loss of two things, western tourism with the jobs and money it brings plus investment from Europe in the horticultural sector and its jobs for low skilled people who might overturn the government and king. As pointed out, around 1000 have left and joined IS.

All the major makers of motorcycles selling into the EU might be having second thoughts now about promoting their products through expeditions across that country, as might many independent riders, such trips have huge appeal but that might start to change, I wouldn’t risk it now.

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
5 years ago

Return all muslims to a muslim country. Put in place a complete travel ban to any muslim country and cease any aid immediataly.
If people like these girls and dumb, leftist love all thats hatefull, cannot make a rational decision, then they have to be protected.
But look at our week pathetic government in the UK trying to stop muslims leaving the UK to fight in syria, then when they want to come back they are given benefit just like that desease chowdry and a house while the indigenous people of the UK wait in line.
Finally as a comparison to show my fairness. We don’t seem to have a problem with Sihks, Hindu’s, chinese, I wonder why that is.

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago
Reply to  Clem Jackson

That would be the most humane, but also the most foolish thing to do. That would be letting them live to come back later and kill your people. They will never stop because they will never change. They will never change because their god, inside his holy book, tells them they will become apostate, receive a death sentence themselves and not make it to heaven afterwards, if they change.
Would you remain a PROUD member of a group if it was spreading across the world butchering innocent, nonviolent people because it’s god ordered it to? No of course you wouldn’t. No sane, decent person with a conscience, would.
So you must ask yourself why are millions of this group of islamists, who claim to be ‘moderate’, choosing to remain in this demonic group that is without a doubt spreading across the world butchering innocent, nonviolent people, making more and more of the world unsafe?
The answer is they are not sane or good.
They must be destroyed. Any leader that would bring these barbarians into your neighborhoods to kill your family, is neither good or sane, and must also be destroyed before they destroy you.

Memri Dotorg
Memri Dotorg
5 years ago

Like small pox, Islam is a disease that needs to be eradicated from the earth.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
5 years ago

I still have to ask why were these two clueless unicorn following women doing back packing in the Middle East anywhere. Not a bit of self awareness or common sense so they paid the price. Sorry but it is just hard fact. Make no mistake I am very sorry they were murdered but they had poor judgment.

RetiredNavyphotog
RetiredNavyphotog
5 years ago
Reply to  Larenzo1

They did not have situational awareness.
I see women all the time jogging wearing earbuds. They cannot hear if some attacker sneaks up on them.

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago

They either had no god or believed what the world tells progressives – that their secular god of tolerance and inclusion is the same god as islam, and would protect them if they embraced and defended these barbariac but spiritual ‘brothers and sisters’.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago
Reply to  Larenzo1

Thanks to Leftist brainwashing. See the video by Paul Joseph Watson I previously posted.

Sovereign Ag
Sovereign Ag
5 years ago
Reply to  Larenzo1

their parents forgot to give them self worth common sense and logic. i heard one of the moms was sending hearts and love to morocco after their deaths. sick people all around. the vikings are rolling over in the graves, as are the founders of america, and others at how utterly stupid their future generations turned out to be.
it is common sense to call a spade a spade. it has nothing to do with racism or anything else. as paul joseph watson said cultural relativism is a death sentence. the people need to rise up against their satanic commie leadership and defend themselves against this endless jihad that has been going on since st francis’ time or before.

Ian McGregor
Ian McGregor
5 years ago
Reply to  Larenzo1

Morocco isn’t in the Middle East!

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
5 years ago
Reply to  Ian McGregor

Thanks I should have known that. But it is mostly a muslim nation. Still not smart move.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago

The Moroccan authorities seem to be pulling out all the stops to find every culprit behind this disgusting murder’ no doubt they can see the effect it will have on their tourist trade. Anyone who goes there or any other Muzrat country needs certifying.

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago

Islam is like the Borg. It is one body made up of the many parts. Not all parts hold the blade, but the parts that don’t, support and hold up the parts that do.
Human beings that uphold or tolerate islam are neither sane nor good. The bible says their conscience has been seared with a hot iron, calling good evil, and evil good.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago
Reply to  iprazhm

I’ve always thought of Islam and their Leftist allies as equivalent of the Borg.comment image

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

Great meme

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago
Reply to  iprazhm

And yet…. it was the Leftists who became part of the “Resistance” when Trump was elected. They are never consistent about anything except for their lust for totalitarian control and deceit—those are constants. However, they may be in for a rude awakening in the end if the Leftists+Muslims do in fact accomplish their goal to destroy Western Civilization. It will be the more superior Islamic Borg who will “assimilate” the Leftist Borg—as in submit, convert or die which they have been doing for 1400 years.comment image

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago

What a ‘brave’ lot, 18 excuses for men against two young women!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Stay the hell out of MUSLIM countries!

Morocco Religions::

Sunni Islam 99% (official)
(0.1% Shia)
Other 1% (includes Christian, Jewish, and Baha’i )

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
5 years ago

looks like the white people tourism industry in morocco must have taken a serious hit for these mooooooslims to “arrest” 18 of their brothers. it’s all for show. the idiot white people will forget in several weeks, and the moooooslims will continue to hunt down and murder white folks

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

Morocco should just behead all of them. That will send a clear message!

Ted Joseph
Ted Joseph
5 years ago

Politicians who brought this madness (Muslim immigration) to our shores are to blame for this mess!

Pablo Descartes
Pablo Descartes
5 years ago

I’m not for torture. Just send these evil creatures to the afterlife where they’ll find out who allah truly is.
We have a serious situation in America as there are many of these evil creatures living amongst us, some in sleeper cells & some in our neighborhoods.

samjovanou
samjovanou
5 years ago

pablo_descartes 5++

albert
albert
5 years ago

These men should be executed, knifed or shot, the killers should be women, these medieval paedo worshippers believe that if they are killed by women they will not go to heaven, no 72 virgins ( 70 Christian slave whores, 2 pure muslim girls ) no river of wine, to make doubly sure they would not enter heaven their bodies could be rendered into animal feed and fed to a herd of pigs especially kept and honoured for that purpose, their families could be given a bucket of pig faeces for burial.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

Good … but this only means that some Moroccans are bad Muslims.

Guess they have not read their book.

joc22
joc22
5 years ago

And all 18 of them would have raped them first, numerous times, before they beheaded them. Women are just for two things according to these animals and their book.

Underzog
Underzog
5 years ago

Incidentally, my Israeli niece Hanna hitched a ride in Israel and unbeknowst to her, she hitched it with two Arab men. She did not realize this until too late (they were already on the road). They took to a village in Israel she did not know. They told her to wait in the car and they would be back for her. Hanna instead went into some ladies room; called my brother (her father) and he called the Israeli police and they took her out of there. As she knew something of how Muslims act, she is still alive.

Ted Paine
Ted Paine
5 years ago

When can we expect the public hanging of these scumbags?

Declan Hickey
Declan Hickey
5 years ago

Meanwhile in Canada……CBC, CTV, and Global News are STILL telling it like this: “Other tourists found the women with stab wounds in their necks and alerted police.” Umm….I watched the video (not recommended) and she was alive, bloodied, beaten, likely raped and screaming in pain as he sliced into her throat with a kitchen knife. “This is for Allah” he says. Then it shows two severed heads. One must ask: Why is the MSM covering for these Jihadis? Are we ready to call it complicity yet? Could the MSM be attempting to delay our awakening to the activities of this worthless human garbage until the infiltration is complete?

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