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Jean-Charles Brisard (@JcBrisard) tweeted at 2:51pm - 16 Jan 15:
According to our information, Cherif #Kouachi traveled to Saudi Arabia in November 2008 #CharlieHebdo #KSA (https://twitter.com/JcBrisard/status/556136477131038720?s=17)
Someone else replied that the visit could have been for Omra, which many Muslims do. I'm not sure what that is, but guess it's a religious festival, or pilgrimage?
Germany is now pushing for legislation that will prevent suspected terrorists travelling to Turkey. At the moment, anyone with a German ID card can get straight into Turkey, and from there it's easy to cross into Syria. The German government wants to issue suspects with special German ID cards, that will not be valid for travel into Turkey, as far as I can make out.
The Umrah (Arabic: عمرة‎ is a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, performed by Muslims that can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Hajj. (Wikipedia)
Re ID-card:
Similar happened in The Netherlands.
A girl from a Dutch family (RC by the look of it) fell in love with a Jihadi on the internet. She converted to islam and radicalized.
Her parents were well aware of this, but could not do anything about it no matter what they tried. They alerted the authorities.The girls's passport was revoked.
Unfortunately, she had a lawyer.
This lawyer found a loophole in the law: in The Netherlands, persons older than 14 years are obliged to have an ID-document.
Therefore, the girl was able to get a Dutch ID-card, and with this card she left for Turkey and disappear into the Islamic state.
Meanwhile, she has returned. Did not like it there at all and wailed for her mother. Mother went to Turkey and somehow managed to pick her up at the border.
She spent some time in jail and Dutch authorities gave her a tough time, but in the end, nothing came of it.
She was just a stupid lovesick teenager.
Very good that Germany is pushing for legislation to prevent these travels to Turkey.
And Turkey should do more to stop people from crossing into the islamic state. They let Hayat Boumedienne escape as well.