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| US sanctions two European al Qaeda operatives |
| 2010-04-02 |
| The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against a London-based Iraqi who is suspected of smuggling weapons back to his homeland, and of ties to Osama bin Laden. The US Treasury Department said Ahmad Khalaf Shabib al-Dulaymi transported arms and explosives across the border from Syria using a British-based firm, and of once carrying a letter from bin Laden to a leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The letter, carried around January 2007 was bound for Abu Ayyub Al-Masri, an Egyptian who has played a key role in the Iraqi insurgency. Shabib, a 37-year-old Fallujah native, now faces a freeze on his assets held in the United States. Al-Dulaymi is also accused by the US government of running two Al-Qaeda cells in Europe, including one in Bucarest, helping train the network's fighters and of providing financial support to Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Al-Dulaymi, who also goes under 16 aliases was described by the Treasury Department as an Al-Qaeda financier, who "provide support to terrorists or acts of terrorism." The Treasury also slapped sanctions Thursday on Atilla Selek -- a German man of Turkish origin -- who is one of four Islamic militants jailed in Germany for planning attacks on US soldiers and civilians in Germany. Sentencing the four in March, judge Ottmar Breidling said they planned to stage a "monstrous bloodbath" with car bombings in German cities. In what Breidling called the biggest terror plot in German post-war history, the four were convicted in a high-security courtroom in the western city of Duesseldorf after a more than 10-month trial. Selek was sentenced to five years in a German prison for his role in the plot. Proposed targets included pubs and nightclubs in several German cities frequented by Americans but also US airbases and diplomatic facilities. The so-called Sauerland cell, named after the region where three were captured in September 2007, admitted to belonging to a "terrorist organization", plotting murder and conspiring for an explosives attack. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 These sanctions will not help us win terrorist hearts and minds. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-02 20:31 |
| #1 As long as it not "The Loo Saction"... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-04-02 09:03 |