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| 2003-11-26 |
| Bin Laden ’bodyguard’ is jailed A German court has jailed an al-Qaeda suspect for four years for helping plot terror attacks against Jewish targets. Shadi Abdellah, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, had told the court he was briefly a bodyguard to al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden. The court in Duesseldorf found him guilty of membership of a terror group and falsifying passports. He is believed to have received a lesser sentence for giving what prosecutors called valuable testimony. Abdellah, 27, was one of nine suspected extremists arrested in Germany in April 2002 on suspicion of plotting imminent terror attacks. The targets were believed to be two Jewish restaurants in Duesseldorf and a Jewish community centre in Berlin. German intelligence officers told the court that the group of which Abdellah was a member, al-Tawhid, had links to al-Qaeda. |
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