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| German Courts Jail IS Fighter for Nearly Seven Years, Sentence Other Islamist Group Suppliers | ||
| 2016-10-07 | ||
| [AnNahar] Two German courts Thursday jailed an Islamic State group jihadist and handed prison terms to four men for backing another Islamist militant group in Syria. In one trial, a German-Turkish citizen named only as Kerim Marc B. received a jail term of six years and nine months for swearing allegiance to IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and joining the group in combat. The 23-year-old from the western city Duesseldorf had assumed the nom de guerre Abu Zulfikar and fought in a unit of predominantly Bosnian militants in 2013-14 before he was arrested in Turkey in 2015, the court heard. Prosecutors in the Duesseldorf trial presented photos of B. with an AK-47 assault rifle and hand grenades and said that even in pre-trial detention, he had sought to convert fellow inmates. Before the verdict was read, the defendant told the judges he had "completely turned my back on the Islamic State".
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014.... The four men had supplied the militia, which is battling the regime of President Bashar Assad, with thousands of second-hand military jackets and boots as well as ambulances, the court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart heard. They received terms ranging from three and a half years jail to a suspended prison term of one year and nine months.
In 2013 and 2014, they provided the group with 7,500 boots and 6,000 jackets and other goods worth 130,000 euros, procured through B.'s army-surplus company in Amstetten and in a delivery organized by El-R. -- who also provided five ambulances. Ahrar al-Sham is Syria's most powerful non-jihadist rebel group, with a commanding presence in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. It espouses a hardline Islamist ideology and works closely with former al-Qaida affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 You'll get out just in time for the fourth quarter or maybe the post game party... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-10-07 02:48 |