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| Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard is paid £1000 a month welfare in Germany and can't be deported |
| 2018-04-24 |
[DailyMail]
Although classified as dangerous and forced to report to police every day, authorities claim Sami A. cannot be sent back to his Tunisian homeland because the risk of torture would be too high. But the 42-year-old, who traveled to Afghanistan in the late 1990s to become a bodyguard for the architect of the 9/11 attacks, continues to stay in Germany after a court ruled he could face torture if deported. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia admitted it pays 1167,84 euros a month to him, his wife and their four children aged between four and 11. The admission in the regional parliament came after a question was posed by the the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Since no other country has shown willingness to take in the Tunisian, it now seems he will remain in Germany indefinitely - even though security services still consider Sami A. to be a dangerous and central member of the Islamist scene in the country and have had him under observation since at least 2006. The ban on deportations to Tunisia was lifted two years ago. But officials still feel that such a close ally of bin Laden would run the risk of imprisonment, torture and death. Sami A. came to Germany as a student in 1997 before opting to become a jihadist and traveling to Afghanistan where he trained in a terror camp before becoming a bodyguard to bin Laden. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 I did a search of our archives, and as a result have absolutely no idea who Sami A. from Tunisia is. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-24 21:29 |
| #3 authorities claim Sami A. cannot be sent back to his Tunisian homeland because the risk of torture would be too high. I'm willing to have him chance it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-04-24 18:35 |
| #2 The admission in the regional parliament came after a question was posed by the the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Obviously the AfD has no understanding of 'Protected Person' under the GC. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-24 14:22 |
| #1 Sort of a twist of the old "Alive and living in Argentina". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-24 13:56 |