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Time to get a few things straight about Anouar Haddouchi, #IslamicState member from #Belgium whose capture by SDF was recently confirmed. While the exact moment wasn’t mentioned here, there were rumors that he was caught since March already (1/7)
Haddouchi is often nicknamed the ‘executioner of Raqqah’ these days. Based on declarations of a local councillor, about a certain ‘Abu Souleymen al-Belgiki’ who beheaded more than 100 people there (2/7) 7sur7.be/home/le-parque…
Haddouchi was known as ‘Abu Souleymen’ indeed, but at least two other Belgian foreign fighters were. And as far as we know, an investigation by the Belgian judiciary did not unearth decisive proof about Haddouchi being this executioner (3/7)
It might be him, it might be someone else - and it’s evenly unsure whether Haddouchi has had a significant role in planning the 2015 #ParisAttacks. It is only proven that his money was channeled to the terrorist cell coordinated by Abdel Hamid Abaaoud (4/7)
£3,000 from Haddouchi's bank account was handed over to Mohamed Abrini - the infamous ‘man with the hat’ of the 2016 #BrusselsAttacks - on explicit orders of Abdel Hamid Abaaoud (5/7) bbc.com/news/uk-381838…
Additionally, €3,700 from Haddouchi’s account was transferred to an unidentified person by his brother Chakir, and this brother also channeled €3,295 to Abdesselam Tazi, who was plotting a third big attack on European soil (6/7) eeradicalization.com/how-unsuspecti…
As many of the people involved in these transfers appear to have been purposedly chosen for not being involved in any other way in terrorist planning (and thus not arousing any suspicion), it’s also possible that Haddouchi ignored for what exactly his money would be used (7/7)
