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UAE Sentences Turk to Life for Links to Syria Islamists
[AnNahar] The United Arab Emirates' supreme court upheld a life sentence against a Ottoman Turkish citizen for promoting Islamist groups in Syria and transferring funds out of the Gulf state, state media reported.

The ruling, handed down late Monday, comes less than two weeks after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
 placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
 a UAE citizen suspected of playing a role in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October in Istanbul. The man was found hanged in his cell on Sunday.

The supreme court in Abu Dhabi upheld the life sentence of the 49-year-old Ottoman Turkish citizen for "launching an extensive campaign on a Facebook account named 'Ali Ozturk Mehmet' without getting an official permit" to promote "the ideologies of the two terrorist groups and sending them funds through money transfer companies in the UAE", the state news agency WAM said.

According to the indictment, cited by the news agency, the man was found guilty of "colluding" with former al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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 and Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
, two radical groups in Syria.

An Arab man was also found guilty of setting up and managing accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp "under the pseudonym 'Abu Mohammed Al Adnani' with the intent of promoting the fanatic ideologies of the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group", WAM said.

The Ottoman Turkish national was first accused by prosecutors of colluding with terrorist groups in Syria and was found guilty of fundraising activities in the UAE for the two groups.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-01
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