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Gelel Attar

Gelel Attar (born 1981) was a member of the Islamic State from Belgium.

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Gelel Attar was born in 1981 in Belgium to a family of Sunni Muslims originally from Morocco, and he fought in the Syrian Civil War with the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorist group before joining the Islamic State. On 18 January 2016 he was arrested in the port of Mohammedia in Morocco for having direct links with some of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks.

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