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Europe
Mosque urged Brigitte to take jihad action
2004-02-12
Brigitte, who was deported from Australia in October, told French investigators Jihad played a central role in the mosque he and fellow worshippers attended on the outskirts of Paris. French investigative judge Jean Louis Bruguiere questioned Brigitte about extremist Islamic views preached at the Omar and Abu Bakar mosques in suburban Couronne. "Yes, that is true, in the teachings given there by Mohamed El Magrebi, the Jihad played a major part," Brigitte responded, according to a transcript of his interview aired on ABC’s Four Corners last night. Brigitte said many of his fellow worshippers were subsequently killed in the war on terror. "Moreover all those who took part in this teaching have either died in Afghanistan or have been arrested by the Americans because they have been led to that country," Brigitte claimed.
That says we're doing great things, right there...
Brigitte and a Sydney associate, Abu Hamza, are being investigated for an alleged plot against one of several Sydney-based defence bases. Hamza, who has been interviewed by ASIO, allegedly used false company names to make initial inquiries about buying ammonium nitrate fertiliser and other chemicals within Australia, possibly for use in a bomb. Those inquiries may have tipped off the investigation into Hamza, Fertiliser Industry Federation of Australia executive manager Nick Drew said. Mr Drew said fertiliser suppliers had alerted authorities to at least 10 suspicious purchase inquiries in the past 15 months, following overseas attacks where ammonium nitrate was used as an explosive. "We pass these on to the AFP (Australian Federal Police) routinely but as to whether this specific case was picked up in this way, I don’t know," he said. It is understood ASIO questioned Hamza and was unconvinced of his claim that he wanted to send ammonium nitrate to his family’s overseas tanning business.

Brigitte, the son of an engineer and pharmacist, converted to Islam in 1998. In the interview, Brigitte said he joined the navy before 1998 but went AWOL. After the navy, Brigitte said he’d worked in a drug rehabilitation centre and as a social worker before running a butcher’s shop. Brigitte said his conversion to Islam and his adoption of the Muslim name Mohammed Abderrahmane was the result of "personal reasoning". "It was through studying the Koran and after reading the Bible, the Old and New Testament, that I decided to join Islam," he said. The French secret service has since linked Brigitte to the Algerian based terrorist group, Salafist Group for Call and Combat and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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many of his fellow worshippers were subsequently killed in the war on terror.

Praise be to Allah!
Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-2-12 6:17:55 PM  

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