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| Spain: Former Gitmo Detainee Sentenced to 11.5 Years for Al-Qaeda Recruitment |
| 2016-10-01 |
| [BREITBART] A former Guantánamo prisoner released in 2006 after he was extradited to Spain has reportedly been sentenced to 11 1/2 years in prison by Spanish court for leading a recruiting cell for al-Qaeda out of the European country’s capital. In 2005, Lahcen Ikassrien, a 48-year-old Moroccan, was extradited to Spain from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where he was taken after being tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Afghanistan four years earlier for fighting for al-Qaeda ally the Taliban. In Spain, he claimed he was tortured at the Guantánamo facility, also known as Gitmo, and was released in 2006 after a court determined there was not enough evidence to affiliate him with al-Qaeda. According to the most recent U.S. government statistics, nearly 30 percent of Gitmo prisoners who have been liberated are either confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorist activities. This week, Ikassrien was found guilty of leading a cell out of Spain’s capital Madrid that provided recruits to Syria for the terrorist groups 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.... (ISIS/ISIS) and Jabhat 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 .. ... when both were operating under the al-Qaeda umbrella. "The court also sentenced eight members of the cell -- six Moroccans, an Argentinian and a Bulgarian -- to eight years in jail for membership of a terrorist organization," reports Agence La Belle France-Presse (AFP). "The accused had full knowledge that the jihadist groups Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... were jihadist structures under the umbrella of al-Qaeda," the court reportedly said in its ruling. It added that the cell "recruited, radicalized, indoctrinated and then sent jihadist volunteers" to Syria for the two groups between 2011 and June 2014 when police disbanded it. While the Islamic State broke off from al-Qaeda in February 2014, al-Nusra recently claimed to have cut ties with the group and changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... (JFS). Some analysts have dismissed JFS’ break with al-Qaeda as a feint. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I'm sorry that he didn't meet a bullet earlier. I'm also sorry that nobody on either side of the isle has fought the war against Islam in earnest. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-10-01 00:32 |