The United States is seeking to extradite a German convict who allegedly gave al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...critical support before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, New York prosecutors said Wednesday.
Department of Justice officials accused Christian Ganczarski
| ...the German small time thief who converted to Islam at age twenty, took Abu Ibrahim as his nom de Islam, and rose to the status of an Al Qaeda Number 3, stationed in Germany. He was arrested and released in both Germany and Saudi Arabia before France made it stick in 2009, and had some very interesting names in his cellphone. The other day he made it really, really clear he does not want to be extradited to America... |
Ganczarski, who was born in Poland and later converted to Islam, allegedly met multiple times with big shots of the terrorist organization between 1999 and 2001 and developed close personal ties with bin Laden.
He "had been aware that a significant event was about to occur" while he was in Germany shortly before the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Ganczarski also provided al-Qaeda "with the knowledge and technology to carry out attacks against the US military and its allies," US Attorney Dana Boente said, and lived in al-Qaeda camps while planning kabooms against US embassies in Africa.
Imprisoned in La Belle France
Ganczarski is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence in La Belle France after a Gay Paree court found him guilty of plotting a 2002 kaboom that killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists, at a synagogue in Tunisia.
He injured three guards at a prison in northern La Belle France last week with a pair of scissors and a razor blade after hearing he could be extradited to the US.
If convicted in the US, he could face a maximum sentence of life in prison.