A court in Berlin on Wednesday sentenced the wife of the leader of a German terror cell to two and a half years in prison for supporting terrorist organizations.
The German-Turkish woman was found guilty of collecting up to 2,900 euros ($4,000) for jihadi organizations such as the Islamic Jihad Union, the German Taliban Mujahedeen and al Qaeda between November 2009 and February 2010.
She was convicted of publishing propaganda on the Internet that solicited members for jihadi organizations as well, charges which she admitted to but distanced herself from in the trial.
"It seems to me that it was a different person who wrote the texts," she said, adding that she hated war and violence and had not realized her own radicalization.
German prosecutors had asked for the two-and-a-half year sentence, calling the woman a "fanatical militant" who called "infidels" the enemies of Islam and called for their "annihilation." Her defense attorney wanted a suspended sentence, contending that the woman had sincerely distanced herself from her previous actions.
The defendant's husband, 29-year-old Fritz Gelowicz, recieved 12 years in prison last March by a court in Dusseldorf for planning terrorist attacks against US targets in Germany.
He was taken into custody with two others in September 2007 in the Sauerland region of western Germany. The men were preparing 410 kilograms of explosives to detonate at the Bundestag as it voted on its NATO troops in Afghanistan the following month.
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"It seems to me that it was a different person who wrote the texts," she said, adding that she hated war and violence and had not realized her own radicalization.
Yeah, funny how it always just kinda sneaks up on ya, huh, hon? Especially after ya get caught...
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