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| German Arrested Over Link To Syria Al-Qaeda Branch |
| 2014-10-17 |
[Ynet] German prosecutors say a German man who spent nearly a year in Syria has been placed in durance vileMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on suspicion of membership in the al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, an al-Qaeda allied organization fighting the Assad regime. Federal prosecutors said the 27-year-old, identified only as Soufiane K. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Frankfurt on Wednesday. They said Thursday that he traveled from his hometown of Ruesselsheim, near Frankfurt, to Syria in July last year and had joined al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... by September 2013. He's accused of undergoing battle training and carrying out guard duty with the group, as well as acquiring a Kalashnikov rifle and a machine gun. Prosecutors say the man returned to Germany in June. He faces possible charges of membership in a foreign terrorist organization. |
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