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| Greece orders 2 men to remain in custody pending IS trial |
| 2016-02-04 |
| [IsraelTimes] Police find knives, military-style waistcoat and rifle shoulder-strap among belongings of Swedish passport-holders headed for Syria A Greek magistrate on Tuesday ordered two men to remain in jug pending trial on charges of attempting to travel to Syria through Greece to join 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. The two men, born in Bosnia and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... but travelling on Swedish passports, were tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! last week near the Greek-Turkish land border. Police confiscated two hunting knives, a military-style waistcoat and a rifle shoulder strap from their belongings. They have been charged with membership in a terrorist group, arms possession and possessing military equipment with the intent of supplying a terrorist group. The suspects' lawyer, Menia Polychroni, says her clients deny any wrongdoing and are tourists who don't understand why they were arrested. No trial date has been set, and Greek authorities have the right to hold suspects in pre-trial detention for up to 18 months. Officials haven't named the men, aged 29 and 20, but say the 29-year-old was released from prison in 2011 after serving six years for possessing explosives and threatening to carry out an attack. The man had been arrested and convicted in Bosnia before he was transferred to serve the last part of his sentence in Sweden. Polychroni says her clients claim they have no links to terrorism. "They accept that they are Islamists, but pacifists," she told journalists outside the magistrate's office in the northern Greek town of Alexandroupoli. Police say the suspects were arrested during a routine check at an Alexandroupoli bus terminal, where they had bought tickets for a border village that is close to an official border crossing to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Polychroni said they had bought the knives as souvenirs in Athens, where they stayed for about four days after arriving on a flight from Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 They accept that they are Islamists, but pacifists yeah that computes |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2016-02-04 23:50 |
| #1 The suspects' lawyer, Menia Polychroni, says her clients deny any wrongdoing and are tourists who don't understand why they were arrested. Officials haven't named the men, aged 29 and 20, but say the 29-year-old was released from prison in 2011 after serving six years for possessing explosives and threatening to carry out an attack. The man had been arrested and convicted in Bosnia before he was transferred to serve the last part of his sentence in Sweden. Sometimes I'd like to take their lying |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-02-04 08:57 |