Worldwide hunt for Islamic death squad
An unprecedented global investigation was under way last night into an Islamic
State death squad as France identified one of at least 20 foreign killers as
a Catholic man from Normandy.
Security officials in Britain…
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1 Identified by jihadist experts as a Belgian fighter, Gharmaoul, with the nom de guerre Abu Dujana. 2 Goes by the name Abou Uthman; has been pictured with his boot on a severed head. 3 The masked murderer, thought to be from London, is responsible for the deaths of five hostages. 4 Unknown but initially believed to by Nasser Muthana, 21, a medical student fom Cardiff. 5 Fighter said by Kurdish sources to be of Filipino origin. 6 Maxime Hauchard, 22; raised in France as a Christian, but said to have been the “victim” of online propaganda. smontgomery1 of 2
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parliament, a tenth of what he had planned, leading economists claimed
yesterday.
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Bill Cosby raped me twice in 1969, journalist claims
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