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Extradition ruling set for Jan. 12 (Bosnian Al-Quaeda member extradiction)
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Posted on 12/14/2006 8:18:41 AM PST by kronos77

Yesterday, the arduous five-year extradition hearing for Abdellah Ouzghar, 41, finally ended but Madam Justice Susan Himel won't deliver her decision until Jan. 12.

Ouzghar's lawyer John Norris made his final arguments in court yesterday, saying the theory that Ouzghar belonged to a Canadian Islamic terror cell with roots in Bosnia was based on thin and at times non-existent evidence.

In France, Ouzghar was convicted in absentia for forging documents, uttering those doctored documents, conspiracy to do both of those crimes and participation in a criminal organization. He was sentenced to five years in prison. If he's extradited to France, he would be entitled to a hearing.

Howard Piafsky, the lawyer representing France, argued this week that Ouzghar was part of the infamous Mujahedeen Battalion in Bosnia. He pointed to a statement in which Choulah said he knew Ouzghar from Bosnia where they were both fighters.

But Norris said yesterday that Choulah says in the same breath -- in the same paragraph of his statement -- that he doesn't know anyone from the Mujahedeen Battalion.

(Excerpt) Read more at hamiltonspectator.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alquaeda; bosnia; muslim; terror

1 posted on 12/14/2006 8:18:43 AM PST by kronos77
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

Ping!

Hoplite, where are you?


2 posted on 12/14/2006 8:22:18 AM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77
Piafsky said after the hearing that while its legal issues aren't novel, it was an interesting case because it was an expose of a cell in the mid-1990s, long before 9/11.

"The French authorities were probably ahead of us in recognizing the dangers of radical Islamic organizations."

And the Serbian authorities were way ahead of the French.

3 posted on 12/14/2006 9:03:26 AM PST by F-117A (Who is Jamil Hussein?)
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To: kronos77
"Hoplite, where are you?"

Chewing on his prayer rug.

4 posted on 12/14/2006 9:15:23 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: kronos77
Hoplite, where are you?

You know: Here, there, everywhere.

Until you can come up with a sizeable number of Bosnians recruited into Al Qaeda, the whole post 9-11 Serbian dream of tying your war in Bosnia in with our War on Terror isn't going to go anywhere save with the ignorant and the stupid.

Which suits you fine, I know.

5 posted on 12/15/2006 10:12:34 AM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite; joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ...
How many terrorists took over flights on 9/11? 12?

And how many Americans they‚w killed? 3,000?

basicaly, you look like a desk sgt interviewing a raped girl:

Hoplite: "Just how many of them gang-raped you?" rape victime: "3, sir" Hoplite: "Until you can come up with a sizeable number of rapist, get lost"

6 posted on 12/15/2006 10:19:40 AM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

Logic just isn't your strongest suit.


7 posted on 12/15/2006 10:33:14 AM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite; kronos77; Bokababe
Until you can come up with a sizeable number of Bosnians recruited into Al Qaeda, the whole post 9-11 Serbian dream of tying your war in Bosnia in with our War on Terror isn't going to go anywhere save with the ignorant and the stupid.

Please don't continue insulting serving US militasry intelligence officers by calling them ignorant and stupid.

US hunts Islamic militants in Bosnia

By Harry de Quetteville in Sarajevo
(Filed: 26/07/2004)

American military intelligence and the CIA have deployed hundreds of officers in Bosnia to track suspected Islamic militants amid concern that the country has become a refuge, recruiting ground and cash conduit for international terrorism.

Almost a decade after the end of the war in the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia has become a "one-stop shop" for Islamic militants heading from terrorist battlegrounds in Chechnya and Afghanistan to Iraq, according to European intelligence officials.

With five months to go before European Union peacekeepers take over from Nato troops in Bosnia, the United States is preparing for a huge cut in its military presence.

-more- [from Telegraph.co.uk]

8 posted on 12/15/2006 2:15:23 PM PST by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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To: archy

Great find, Archy & an excellent post!


9 posted on 12/15/2006 3:14:01 PM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
Great find, Archy & an excellent post!

It would have been a lot more excellent if I hadn't glitched the spelling of the word *military*.

10 posted on 12/15/2006 3:28:09 PM PST by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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To: Hoplite

But pro-Jihadist propaganda seems to come to you naturally, Dhimmi.


11 posted on 12/15/2006 4:05:45 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: archy
Please don't continue insulting serving US militasry intelligence officers by calling them ignorant and stupid.

Can you come up with any list of Bosnians recruited into Al Qaeda?

No. You can't.

We've recently pulled the last of our troops from Bosnia, and at last report had left 100 or so intel types to keep an eye on those muj who came to fight in Bosnia and stayed on after the war was over.

Given that there have been no attacks upon our interests in Bosnia (a couple planned, but broken up with the help of the Bosnians) and there has been no reported instances of Bosnians showing up amongst the insurgent forces in either Iraq or Afghanistan, do you have any hope of bringing anything worthwhile to bring to the discussion?

Apparently not.

12 posted on 12/16/2006 10:30:44 AM PST by Hoplite
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