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2023-12-25 Europe
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Germany charges 2 Syrians with war crimes over IS ties
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[DW] Authorities accuse the two Syrians in German custody of membership in a terrorist group and having committed war crimes in Damascus a decade ago.
German prosecutors have charged two Syrian men with war crimes they are accused of having committed some 10 years ago in the Syrian capital Damascus, as part of the so-called Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
krazed killer group.
In line with German privacy rules, the Federal Prosecutors Office on Friday identified the two men as Mohammad A. and Asmael K. in a statement on its website. Authorities said both suspects were charged with being members of a foreign terror organization and of "hostage-taking resulting in death."
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SUSPECTS?
According to German prosecutors, the two men joined the IS group around 2013.
Asmael K. was accused of killing people protected under international humanitarian law. He is believed to have guarded 12 prisoners and shot at least one of them dead.
Mohammad A. was accused of founding an armed unit in Damascus that is reported to have planted bombs at state offices. He was also charged with joining IS and commanding some 200 fighters.
The two men are currently in German custody. A court in the western city of Dusseldorf will decide whether they will face trial.
Germany took in during the past decade hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war there, ongoing since 2011. Recently, some of those Syrians have been arrested and even tried over crimes committed back home.
The two men, identified as Mohammad A. and Asmael K. per German privacy rules, were arrested in March and are accused of membership of a foreign terror organization and "hostage-taking resulting in death."
“At the end of 2013, Mohammad A. together with the ISIS fighting unit in his command abducted two opponents of the organization,” prosecutors said in a statement.The victims were held at an ISIS detention center and later “executed” with 10 other prisoners.
Asmael K. is alleged to have joined ISIS as a fighter in 2013 and taken part in the abduction in question.
He is also accused of guarding the 12 prisoners at the site where they were killed and shooting at least one person.
A court in the western city of Duesseldorf will now decide whether the two men, who are in custody, will go to trial.
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