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Iraqi Kurd jailed in Germany for funding terrorist
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September 26, 2007
Stuttgart, Germany, --- An Iraqi Kurd who
transferred thousands of euros to bombers in Iraq
was jailed in Germany Wednesday for two and a half
years under a tough new policy of catching
second-line supporters of terrorism. At the same
time, a trial date was set for a Lebanese student
arrested after for a bungled attempt to set off a
bomb last summer on a German passenger train.
The state superior court in the southern city of
Stuttgart convicted Burhan B aged 37 of supporting a
foreign terrorist organization by performing a money
transfer.
He sent 12,500 euros (17,625 dollars at current
rates) to Ansar al-Islam, a violent group of Kurdish
Islamists which is reported to have attacked girls'
schools and Kurdish authorities. B partly admitted
the allegations.
The radical Ansar al-Islam group is banned in
Kurdistan region (Iraq) and listed as a terrorist
group by Kurdistan, USA.
Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical and Terrorist
Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Krekar, whose real
name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj, living in Oslo,
wanted in Kurdistan.
Germany has moved in the recent years beyond
prosecuting main plotters to catching people who do
lesser services for Islamist terrorism such as
raising funds or encouraging the radicals.
In the northern city of Celle, an Iraqi-born man who
has been in custody since October went on trial
Wednesday for supporting a foreign terrorist group,
al-Qaeda, by copying its propaganda into new parts
of the internet.
His lawyer, Karl Ruether, told the state superior
court that the defendant, 36, would refrain from
testifying for the time being.
Ruether said the case covered new legal ground,
since the 36-year- old defendant was solely charged
with actions on the internet.
"He is alleged to have quoted speeches by members of
terrorist groups, not to have passed on instructions
on how to make bombs," he said.
Last year the man's wife in the town of
Georgsmarienhuette told reporters she was not aware
of what her husband had done while he used the
internet at their home.
Prosecutors say he found messages by Osama bin Laden
and other terrorists on one part of the internet and
cut and pasted them into forum pages elsewhere.
The trial in Dusseldorf of Youssef al-Hajib, 23, on
charges of attempted multiple murder and an attempt
to cause an explosion will begin on December 18,
state superior court officials in that city said.
He and another Islamist Lebanese are alleged to have
planted bombs hidden in suitcases on two German
trains on July 31, 2006. Neither bomb exploded.
Police say the bombers made an error in their
construction.
The other alleged bomber is on trial in the Lebanese
capital Beirut.
DPA
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