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Kosovo Jails Two for Fighting in Syria
[AnNahar] A Pristina court said Wednesday it had tossed in the calaboosePlease don't kill me! two ethnic Albanians for three-and-a-half years for taking part in fighting in Syria. The two, tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in February and identified by the court only by initials AL and NB, were convicted of "participating in a terrorist organization" in Syria, the court said in a statement sent to AFP. According to the charges, the two -- who each pleaded guilty -- went to Syria in 2013, traveling through ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and fought with the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate. They told the court that they had left al-Nusra and returned to Kosovo after Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group tried to take command of their group. Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority population of 1.8 million is predominantly Muslim. About 300 Kosovars have joined the jihadists' frontlines in Iraq and Syria since 2011, according to police figures. Fifty have been killed in fighting while around 120 have returned to Kosovo. Some 90 people have been arrested in Kosovo since September 2014 on charges including fighting in Syria and Iraq on the side of terrorist groups. Confronting the threat posed by radical islamists returning from Syria and Iraq, Kosovo adopted a law in 2015 allowing prison sentences to be imposed for fighting abroad. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-21 |
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