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| Tunisian terror suspect trial set for Berlin in May |
| 2004-03-26 |
| A 33-year-old Tunisian man will go on trial in Berlin on 4 May on charges of aiming to carry out bomb attacks in the German capital, the Berlin regional court said Monday. The suspect identified as "Ihsan G." is also charged with seeking to build up a terrorist grouping. Fred, I love Rantburg. I searched for "Ihsan" to see if we had noted his arrest last year. Yep, we sure did. This dirtbag was a terror cell leader in a Berlin mosque, and buddy-buddy with a Saudi Diplomat, Muhammad J. Fakihi, who was (don’t bother calibrating the surprise meter) chief of the embassy’s Islamic-affairs branch, and also tied to the 9/11 planners, and subsequently went missing. The man was arrested in March 2003 in Berlin, having illegally entered Germany two months earlier after having undergone training at a camp in Afghanistan run by the terror network al-Qaeda. Federal prosecutors said Ihsan G. was planning, along with four others, to carry out bomb attacks in Berlin. The court date announcement comes amid rising official concern about al-Qaeda members and sympathisers operating in Germany and the possibility, as in Spain, of Islamic terrorists staging deadly attacks. The title-page story of the latest issue of the weekly Der Spiegel on Monday, titled "Al-Qaeda Base Germany" said that German authorities have their eyes on some 270 "Arab mujahedin" suspects inside the country. Hope they can make these charges stick. TGA, can you let us know how this trial develops? |
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