The BBC reports on what happened when Turkey and France tried to cooperate on securing three suspected jihadis wanted in France for questioning on their activities after traveling to Syria.
The three men are believed to belong to a jihadist recruiting network and are considered dangerous by the French security services, French media report.
Imad Djebali, a childhood friend of Merah, was jailed for four years for terrorism in 2009 while Abdelouahed Baghdali, who is married to Merah's sister Souad, is known to police for his links to an Islamist school.
The third man, Gael Maurize, is known to French intelligence for his "implication in a jihadist network", French media say.
According to Le Monde newspaper, the three left for Syria in February to join the Islamic State (IS) group but became disillusioned and surrendered to Turkish border police at the end of August, asking to be repatriated to France. They were detained for three weeks for "violations of the right to abode".
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Note: they turned themselves in to Turkish authorities. Further,
...This is a week in which the French have been told to be on heightened alert because of the danger from returning jihadists. Islamic State has specifically called for French people to be targeted, and in Algeria a Frenchman* has been kidnapped by an IS affiliate.
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Now reported to have been beheaded.
Read the whole BBC report. You won't believe it.
I suspect we'd be a lot further forward if instead of fighting the Global War On Terror, we drilled down a few levels and started to get serious about the Global War On Stupid. Let's just hope jihadis miss this report on the possible uses of Goat Cheese for a terror attack.