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Trial in France of a suspected case of financing Al-Qaeda
2011-01-04
[Ennahar] Eight men, including the Franco-Algerian Ouassini Cherifi, appeared Monday before the Assize Court of Gay Paree in a special case of suspected financing of terrorism, banditry and mixing jihad, fanatics and suburbs bullies.

The trial, scheduled to last four weeks, began in late morning with an hour and a half late due to late arrival of one of four defendants appearing free.

Much of this first day was to be devoted to the reading of the order of indictment, the accused persons to be examined Tuesday.

Cherifi, alias "the Turk", 36, has already been sentenced in 2002 to five years in prison for trafficking in fake passports in connection with Islamist networks.

In the record held until 28 January by the Assize Court Force (comprised solely of professional judges), he is presented by the prosecution as the criminal mastermind of a criminal group whose robberies were used to finance networks Al-Qaeda.

The back room of a restaurant in Clichy-sous-Bois (suburb north of Gay Paree) acquired by Cherifi, "Le Rendez-vous gourmand", would have served as a logistics base for members of the group, according to testimony, who were holding violent words, uttered threats or wanted to die a martyr.
Mahmoud the Weasel or good police bugs?
Cherifi appearing alongside three other nabbed defendants; Feridhi Mourad, a 39 year old Tunisian already convicted three times, including for armed robbery, Manoubi Ben Hadj Brahim, a Tunisian, 34, and Hichem Ezzikouri, a French 31.
The Rab would have had a field day with this lot, wanted on twelve systems and all.
The four other defendants, including two brothers of Feridhi, appeared free under judicial supervision.

On information provided by one of the accused after his arrest, Sherlocks had discovered in a box of Clichy-sous-Bois, an arsenal of explosives and weapons of war.
How nicely was the accused asked, and were mustache wax and number four truncheons involved?
Posted by:Fred

#2  IRONICALLY, ION WAFF > WIKILEAKS: FRANCE IS THE "EMPIRE OF EVIL"... AND GERMANY KNOWS IT, as per France-led techs thefts + industrial espionage agz Germany + other Euro-States.

ARTIC = These wily dastardly Thefts + Espionage activities by FRANCE agz Germany + NATO-EU are repor more worse than anything similar by CHINA + RUSSIA???

Lest we fergit, 1990's "LAST OF THE MOHICANS" > "MOHAWKS USED TO TRADE WID LES FRANCAIS .... BUT NOW LES FRANCAIS BRING OTTAWA, ABENAKI, + HURON [Mohawk = Iroquois enemies-rivals]UNTO MOHAWK LANDS"!

["SIEGE OF FORT WILLIAM HENRY" here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-04 21:49  

#1  A group of Muslim men, some of whom recruited jihadists in prison or visited Islamists in Turkey, sought as much money as they could in order to transfer to Al Qaeda...

And it has nothing, NOTHING, you see, to do with Islam. They're just gardern variety crooks. Okaay.
Posted by: American Delight   2011-01-04 10:26  

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