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Switzerland charges man suspected of supporting Islamic State
2016-02-20
[Ynet] A 25-year-old Swiss man has been charged with supporting 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....
, the first time Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
has brought a suspected "jihadi traveller" before courts, the attorney general's office said on Friday.

It said he was suspected of being bound for the Middle East to join up with Islamic State before his arrest at Zurich airport last year.

"This represents the first time in Switzerland in which a suspected 'jihadi traveller' who was tossed in the slammer
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
before embarking on a trip to a conflict zone has been brought before the courts," Attorney General Michael Lauber's office said in a statement.

The man, from near Zurich, is charged in Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court with violating the nation's so-called "Islamic State law" that bans the violent group and related organizations, the statement said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  No chocolate for you!
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-20 06:58  

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