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| Two terror suspects deported to Czech Republic |
| 2011-08-30 |
| Two men arrested in Berlin last June after a tipoff from Czech police have been deported to the Czech Republic where, along with six others, they face charges of assisting the terrorist organization Jamaat Shariat, also known as the Dagestan Front. The eight arrested in April include Dagestanis, Moldovans, Bulgarians and a Chechen. Six suspects were arrested on April 6 this year in Prague and oficially charged in May when the police first announced the arrests. Two Bulgarians from the group have been charged with counterfeiting documents including passports, while the five Dagestanis and Moldovans have been charged with assisting or intending to assist a terrorist attack. The Chechen national has been charged with illegal ssession of weapons and forging money as well. The two Bulgarians are thought not to have known the intended use of the documents, including passports, which they forged and therefore have not been charged with assisting or attempting to assist a terrorist attack. The five Dagestani and Moldovan suspects allegedly received orders for the forged documents and sent money from their sale to Jamaat Shariat in the North Caucasus. According to the Czech investigators, the forgeries produced by the Bulgarians were high quality and nearly impossible to tell apart from originals during standard checks. "The persons who were operating in the Czech Republic allegedly secured false personal documents, financial means, and weapons and explosives for so-called new fighters," said the head of the police's anti-organized crime unit, Robert Šlachta. Shortly after the first arrests were announced by the Czech police, reports emerged in the Russian media alleging the suspects were linked to al-Qaeda and had received assistance from a Czech NGO which had been active in Chechnya. According to the Russian sources, Jamaat Shariat was formed in 2002 during the Second Chechen war by Rasul Makasharipov, who was sent to Dagestan from Chechnya by Rappani Khalilov to organize attacks on police and security services in order to create instability in Chechnya's neighboring republic to the east. Makasharipov was killed in a gun battle with Russian troops in 2005. The Russian intelligence agency FSB deduced that former Jamaat Shariat leader Magomedali Vagarov, who was killed resisting arrest in August 2010, was the mastermind behind the double suicide bombings in the Moscow metro in March 2010. Mariam Sharipova, Vagarov's wife and widow of former Jamaat Shariat leader Umalat Magomed (killed by special forces in December 2009), was one of the suicide bombers in the Moscow attacks. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 The two Bulgarians are thought not to have known the intended use of the documents, including passports, which they forged and therefore have not been charged with assisting or attempting to assist a terrorist attack. Umm, OK name a legitimate reason to forge these documents, NONE? Hmm. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-08-30 16:18 |