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July 27, 2007

Germany: Islamist Al Qaeda Suspect On Trial

On July 8, 2006, a man with German and Moroccan citizenship identified only as "Redouane E. H." was arrested in Hamburg, Germany. This man had been living in Kiel, and was said to have had links with Said Bahaji, an associate of the "Hamburg Cell" Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, who were involved in the 9/11 terror attacks.

News from Evening Echo, , Bloomberg, International Herald Tribune and Expatica News reports that on Wednesday, 37-year old Redouane E. H. appeared in Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court in Schleswig, accused of raising funds for Al Qaeda in Iraq, and gathering recruits to send as jihad fighters to Iraq. Case number of the trial is: 1 OJs 1/07. Additionally, Redouane E. H. was co-accused with four other men of co-founding a terrorist group.

Redouane E H had allegedly transferred 5,000 Euros ($6,800) of money to Egypt and Syria, and had violated German export laws, between August 2005 and July 2006. The funds were said to have been used to supply equipment for Islamists who had been recruited from Morocco and Egypt, to pay for explosives and to pay a people smuggler.

The prosecution maintains that in August 2005, Redouane E H swore an oath of allegiance to Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban. This oath, and a pledge to provide fighters and funds, was delivered via the internet and to another man, a "go-between" who has not been named. The prosecution also maintained that Redouane E H had used an internet shop in Kiel which he had founded to communicate with terror groups in various global locations. From the server there, at least 513,000 internet conversations had been gathered, and a third of these have been processed by analysts.

Redouane E. H had been a student at Marburg university and Kiel University, and he had also married a German woman, whom he divorced in 2001. In 2003, his brother had died, and this had allegedly been the trigger to turn him towards radicalism.

In May of this year, an alleged accomplice of Redouane E H, a 24-year old Moroccan called Abdelali M, was handed over to Germany. This man had been arrested on March 27 on a German arrest warrant in Sweden. On Wednesday, first day of the trial, prosecutor Matthias Krauss claimed that two accomplices of Redouane E H would have charges filed against them.

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Apologies to readers for delays in writing over the past few days. I live in Gloucester and have been indirectly affected by flooding, with no water supply. The water supply still has not returned and I am only writing sporadically until things return to normal.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 27, 2007 3:34 PM

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