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| Syrian teen on trial in Germany over bomb plot |
| 2017-02-21 |
| [AlAhram] A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Germany Monday accused of planning a kaboom on behalf of 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.... jihadist group. The youngster was tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! at an asylum shelter in the western city of Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... in September, with the authorities describing him as a "serious threat". Police at the time said the suspect's mobile phone showed he had been in touch with an IS contact abroad and had expressed willingness to carry out an attack. Investigators found online chat messages on the phone that included "concrete instructions" for building an bomb, prosecutors added. Officers searching his accommodation discovered a battery pack, 70 sewing needles and several butane gas cartridges -- items that could be used to prepare a bomb, DPA national news agency reported, citing the charge sheet. The trial at the district court in Cologne, scheduled to last until March 20, is being held behind closed doors because the accused is a legal minor. A court front man said he had to answer charges of planning "a serious act of violence threatening state security". If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of five years' detention under the juvenile penal code. The teenager and his family were among the nearly 900,000 The youngster was brought to police attention after residents and employees at the refugee shelter where he was staying voiced concerns that he had been radicalised, as did a local mosque. |
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