Ahmad Wali Siddiqui says in trial that Islamic Theocratic Republic supports the terrorist group.
KOBLENZ -- Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, a German-Afghani who is alleged to have been a member of al-Qaeda, said on both Monday and Tuesday during his trial that Iran harbored al-Qaeda terrorists.
The revelations were fresh evidence of Shi'ite Iran's ongoing support of Sunni snuffies in al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
"Life in Germany is not good. You live with gays, lesbians and Jews. Islam rules here," Siddiqui, 37, told his mother in Hamburg in a wiretapped telephone conversation disclosed during his trial. He is charged with being a member of a terrorist organization.
A group of German Islamists planned to return from Pakistain in 2010 to mount attacks targeting Europe's economy. American forces in Kabul jugged Siddiqui in 2010 when he was on his way to Germany.
He said during the trial that two of his fellow conspirators -- Rami Makanesi and Naamen Meziche -- flew from Vienna to Tehran so as not "to not get caught." An Iranian-operated travel agency in Hamburg arranged their trip. Makanesi and Meziche established contact with a controller known as "Dr. Mamoud," who works for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Siddiqui continued.
The travel route allowed the two men to travel unimpeded to the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, which serves a hub for snuffies seeking to enter Afghanistan and Pakistain. Dr. Mamoud "welcomed them" to Zahedan and from the border city they made their way into Pakistain, Siddiqui said.
Pak authorities jugged Makanesi in 2010 while disguised as a woman wearing a burka. Meziche is believed to be in Iran.
Presiding Judge Angelika Blettner poised tough questions to Siddiqui about his views toward the West and Jews. She said his anti-Jewish and homophobic comments revealed contempt for life in Germany. When asked by federal prosecutor Bernd Steudl who had taught him to hate Jews, gays and lesbians, Siddiqui replied that "every mujahideen [people involved in jihad] holds this opinion."
Siddiqui said at the trial, "I have nothing against Jews."
Other than what he was taught...
Sources connected to the trial said it is expected to reveal an intricate network among al-Qaeda members, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, and other Islamic terrorist groups operating in Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistain.
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Not to worry. Iran will "reject" the charge in a day or two.
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Sometimes some good comes from public trials, such as the information coming from this one. The German system allows the judge to ask a lot of questions, hence the questions from the bench -and some very interesting answers. Is the North American media covering this -nope not all. They are busy generating division and angst. Is there a special course in asking the stupid and the obvious questions in journalism. And who cares what people "feel"? God I hate that lazy question. I want to know what they saw, did, and observed through their other senses. That how I feel. Opps ranting before the first coffee on the West Coast.
Anyway back to Uzbekistan - and the Iranian alleged link: name a country that does not have some al-Qaeda like cell within it? Particularily one east of say Cyprus?
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ION ALLEMANIE, WAFF > "LITTLE INSTANBUL":TURKS TO [legally] RENAME PARTS OF GERMANY THEY ARE COLONIZING, e.g. City of Manhem in electoral referendum.
Arise, ISLAMO/OTTO-GERMANIA, arise???
And so it begins.
versus
* TOPIX > TURKEY WANTS TO BE A GLOBAL POWER.
More than just Regional.
* SAME > ARAB REVOLTS [Arab-Muslim Springs] BRING ISLAMIST REGIONAL VISION CLOSER TO BEING REALIZED.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > COMMISSION: SCRAPPING TRIDENT SLBMS TO SAVE UK L$83.5BILYUHN.
HMMMM, HMMMM, so IIUC the UK may have to rely on an Ireland + independent Scotland? wid no Militaries, Surrender-is-not-Defeat France + the wily Propellers of the CV Charles De Gaulle, future Otto-Germania, + weak Mama Russia for UK + EU Security???
D *** NG IT, LONDON MUST BUILD THE "QUEEN LIZ" CVF IN ORDER TO MOTHBALL IT!
The incident occurred Monday outside the school, which the 12-year-old victim attends. He was not seriously injured.
The attack came a week after a gunman opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, killing a rabbi and his two young sons, and the daughter of the school's principal.
The boy in Paris reportedly was beaten about 100 yards away from the school, out of sight of police who have been guarding the school since last week's attack in Toulouse.
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[An Nahar] An angry La Belle France won a pledge Tuesday from the Al-Jazeera news channel not to air a video shot by an Islamist myrmidon during a murderous shooting spree targeting soldiers and Jewish children.
President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... demanded that the channel not broadcast the video sent to its Gay Paree bureau, which includes graphic footage shot by Mohamed Merah during attacks this month in southern La Belle France that left seven people dead.
French officials also reacted with fury to threats from Merah's Algerian father to sue Gay Paree over the way in which he was slain in a gunbattle with police last Thursday at the end of a 32-hour siege of his Toulouse flat.
And police said they believed the al-Qaeda-inspired gunman, branded a "monster", may have had one or more accomplices who possibly sent the footage to Al-Jazeera and helped him steal the scooter used in the attacks.
"In accordance with Al-Jazeera's code of ethics, given the video does not add any information that is not already in the public domain, its news channels will not be broadcasting any of its contents," the Qatar-based network said.
The pan-Arab channel, which once owed much of its fame outside the Arab world to airing recordings of al-Qaeda's late chief, the late Osama bin Laden ... who abandoned all hope when he entered there... , said it had declined "numerous requests from media outlets for copies of the video."
Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchie of Algerian descent, had previously boasted of filming his killings and witnesses had told police that he appeared to be wearing a video camera in a chest harness during the shootings.
He was not wearing the device during his final fatal shootout, but police said they had found the Go-Pro style camera in bag he had given to a friend.
Al-Jazeera's Gay Paree bureau chief, Zied Tarrouche, said the channel received the videos on a USB memory key, along with a letter in poorly written French that claimed the attacks in the name of al-Qaeda.
Tarrouche said the videos showed the attacks in chronological order and had been edited into a montage.
"There was a mixture of religious music and chants, lectures, and recitals of verses from the Koran," he said.
Leading French television networks all said they would also not broadcast the videos if they became available.
Latifa Ibn Ziaten, the mother of Imed Ibn Ziaten, the first of three French paratroopers bumped off by Merah, told Agence La Belle France Presse she was relieved the footage would not be shown.
"This is good, it is the right decision, the only decision to take," she told AFP by telephone from Morocco. "I am relieved because this was about my son's honor. I don't want my son to be dirtied."
Sarkozy had called on all channels not to broadcast the footage "under any pretext, out of respect for the victims and respect for the republic."
The French leader -- who is running for re-election in a campaign already marked by fierce debate on security and the integration of Moslems -- also lashed out at Merah's father, Mohamed Benalel Merah, for his lawsuit threat.
"It is with indignation that I learned that the father of the killer of seven people... wants to file a suit against La Belle France for the death of his son," Sarkozy said.
And Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said: "If I were the father of such a monster, I would shut my mouth in shame."
The father had told AFP on Monday he would sue French authorities because they "had the means to take my son alive... they preferred to kill him."
When police surrounded Merah's Toulouse apartment last week, the gunman fought off an initial assault and then, in a conversation with a police negotiator, grabbed credit for all three attacks.
He rubbed out three soldiers in two separate attacks in Toulouse and nearby Montauban on March 11 and 15.
Last Monday he shot up a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing a 30-year-old teacher, his sons aged five and four and a seven-year-old girl.
On Sunday, the authorities charged the gunman's brother, 29-year-old Abdelkader Merah, with complicity in the attacks but he denied any involvement.
Abdelkader Merah was charged with helping his sibling steal the powerful Yamaha scooter used in the shootings and police said Tuesday they were seeking a third person who may have been involved in the theft.
Police also said an accomplice may have been involved in mailing the videos to Al-Jazeera.
French Moslem officials said the family had asked for Merah's body to be transferred to Algeria for burial.
Merah's mother Zoulhika Aziri had asked for her son to be buried in Algeria to avoid his grave being desecrated.
[An Nahar] Spanish police said they set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a suspected al-Qaeda member Tuesday, accusing him of showing videos on the Internet that encouraged "terrorist acts."
Officers jugged the man, who was identified only as M. H. A., in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia after a probe lasting more than a year, the interior ministry said in a statement.
"His Internet activity revealed his membership of the terrorist organization and the dissemination of audiovisual products to induce, provoke and encourage terrorist acts," it said.
Investigations into the man began in February 2011, the ministry said. Spain's National Court, which hears terrorism cases, had opened an inquest, it said.
In September last year, Spanish police set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a Cuban man suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda and indoctrinating potential followers via his activities on the Internet.
[Emirates 24/7] French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday that the father of a gunman who has threatened to sue over his son's death at the hands of police should keep silent in shame.
What they call in the diplomacy biz a frank and open statement. Good for him.
"If I were the father of such a monster, I would shut my mouth in shame," Juppe told Radio Classique.
A senior advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... , Henri Guaino, also lashed out at the lawsuit threat by Mohamed Merah's father Mohamed Benalel Merah.
"It is his right, but only one word comes to mind: indecent," he told La Belle France Culture radio. "This guy was a monster who killed in cold blood."
Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchie of Algerian descent, was rubbed out by police at the end of a 32-hour standoff on Thursday after claiming the killings of seven people in a series of shootings in southwestern La Belle France.
His father Mohamed Benalel Merah told AFP on Monday he planned to sue La Belle France for having shot his son instead of taking him alive.
"La Belle France is a big country that had the means to take my son alive. They could have knocked him out with gas and taken him in," he said. "They preferred to kill him.
"I will hire the biggest named lawyers and work for the rest of my life to pay their costs. I will sue La Belle France for having killing my son."
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