Berlin, 10 Oct. (AKI) - German police on Tuesday arrested near the western city of Osnabreuck an Iraqi national suspected of belonging to the al-Qaeda terror network. The 36-year-old man, identified as Ibrahim R. is accused of having over the past two years "spread worldwide over the Internet audio and video messages by the leaders of ... al-Qaida and al-Qaida in Iraq - namely Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — and in doing so of having supported these groups in their terrorist activities and aims," prosecutors said in a statement.
The statement gave no further details of Ibrahim R.'s alleged activities and did not specify if he is suspected of posting the video and audio messages to the Web or only have spreading messages already there. It also gave no details of the contents. He is due to appear before a federal judge on Wednesday for a decision on whether he is to be detained pending possible charges of supporting a terrorist organisation. |