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| Kosovo Charges Seven over Islamic State Recruitment |
| 2015-03-03 |
| [AnNahar] Kosovo has indicted seven ethnic Albanians on terrorism charges over alleged plans to take up arms with 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group or recruit fighters for the holy warriors, officials said Monday. Five of the indicted "agreed to go to the war in Syria and join the group of Albanians who fight on the side of the terrorist organization ISIL", known also as IS, the Kosovo prosecutor's office said in a statement. Two others, including a holy man, were charged with recruiting fighters or "urging other persons to commit or participate in the commission of terrorist acts," the statement said. The suspects were tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! separately from June-October 2014. Five defendants, including the imam, have remained in detention since being taken into custody, while one suspect is under house arrest and another is out on bail, according to a prosecutor's front man. The indictment was the latest in a series of efforts by authorities in Kosovo to prosecute radical Islamists, recruiters or fighters. The interior ministry estimates that around 300 Kosovars have joined the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. Half of them have been prosecuted so far, according to Interior Minister Skender Hyseni. Most of Kosovo's 90-percent Albanian majority are moderate Moslems with strong pro-Western sentiments. |
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