Suspected French jihad recruiter arrested in Paris
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PARIS - French authorities have arrested a "particularly dangerous" recruiter of young jihadis for the civil war in Syria, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
Mourad Fares, 30, was arrested Wednesday night at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, nearly a month after he was detained in Turkey -- a transit country for fighters who want to enter Syria.
Fares, from Thonon-les-Bain in the foothills of the Alps, went to Syria in July 2013 and is a "particularly dangerous individual," a ministry statement said. He had links to the predecessor of the Islamic State group, the most brutal among myriad jihadi organizations, then the al-Qaida linked Nusra Front, the ministry said.
