President Hollande said France supports arming the Syrian rebels in a controlled manner so they do not end up in the hands of Islamists. A French Muslim convert was arrested in the Calvados region on terror charges for serving as administrator of the radical Islamist website Ansar al Haqq and as a translator of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s magazine Inspire. Interior Minister Valls warned that more than 130 French jihadists are now fighting in Syria, of a total of about 300 who are either currently fighting or known to be planning to go to Syria; a number of them are Muslim converts. A convert from Toulouse was killed in Syria while fighting regime forces in August.
