Posted on 12/11/2008 7:02:53 PM PST by Cindy
Follow up to my earlier post about 14 Belgians arrested for being al Qaeda members. It turns out one of them is Malika El-Aroud, who has been arrested in the past for running an al Qaeda support website. If you speak French and hang around the eHadis, you'd probably recognize her from her frequent appearances at the minbar-sos forum.
Massoud—who loathed the extremism of the Taliban as much as he did the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union—once told me he was fighting not only for a free Afghanistan but for a free world. -----—Sebastian Junger
[Sebastian Junger on Afghanistan’s Slain Rebel Leader Ahmad Shah Massoud National Geographic ^ | October 2001]
SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (AFGHANISTAN : ASSASSINATION OF NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMAD SHAH MASSOUD [FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER OF AFGHANISTAN 1992-to-96 ]-- WITH HELP FROM FRENCH TERRORIST WILLIE BRIGITTE -- See LeT, SYDNEY CELL, VA JIHAD) ... Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed by two men posing as documentary filmmakers two days before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.... [French terrorist Willie] Brigitte [was later linked] to the supply of two stolen Belgian passports that assassins Karim Touzani and Kacem Bakkali used to gain access to the northern Afghanistan stronghold of Massoud's northern Afghanistan stronghold... A TV camera believed to have contained the bomb is known to have been stolen from a French camera operator in Grenoble [France] on Christmas Eve 2000. Massoud's murder was a severe setback to moves to oust the fundamentalist Islamic regime that harboured al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. ------ "Deportee tie to assassination," By Peter Fray, Paris & Mark Forbes, Canberra, The Age [Australia] , October 29, 2003 ; This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/28/1067233172665.html
SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (BRIGITTE, PARIS CELL-- see LeT) A Frenchman under investigation in [2003 in ] Australia and France for possible terrorist activities was also suspected of links to the assassination of an Afghan leader, authorities said. Willie Virgile Brigitte, 35, is in custody in a Paris area jail where he is being held on suspicion of association with a terror group, French police and justice officials said. Investigations are under way in France and Australia into Brigitte's alleged links to the al-Qaeda terror network, French officials said today. A judicial official said that Brigitte was also suspected of running false passports to the assassins of former anti-Taliban rebel leader in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massood. ----Terror suspect linked to Afghan assassination,AP via The Age ^ | October 28, 2003 | NA\
SEPTEMBER 13, 2001 : (BIN LADEN WRITES MULLAH OMAR) Five years after the Taliban opponent was slain by a bomb hidden in the camera, a former Taliban official on Saturday described how al-Qaida staged the killing — two days before the Sept. 11 attack on America — hoping to strike a fatal blow to the pro-U.S. Northern Alliance. Waheed Mozhdah, director of the then-Taliban Foreign Ministry's Middle East and Africa department, also showed The Associated Press a copy of what he said was a signed letter dated Sept. 13, 2001, from bin Laden to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, urging him to launch an offensive against the alliance.
In the letter, written in Arabic, bin Laden said that if America failed to respond to the Sept. 11 attacks, it would decline as a superpower. But if the U.S. started fighting, he added, its economy would suffer a major blow and it would face the same destiny as the Soviet Union — whose ill-fated 1980s occupation of Afghanistan heralded its disintegration. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
MAY 2002 : (UK : YASSIR EL SIRRI IS FREED AND THEN REARRESTED -- SEE MASSOUD ASSASSINATION, 1993 WTC/LANDMARK PLOT'S OMAR ABDURRAMAN, LYNNE STEWART ) LONDON (AP) -- An Egyptian man [Yassir el-Sirri] accused of conspiring to assassinate an Afghan northern alliance leader was freed Thursday after a terrorist charge against him was dismissed -- but was immediately re-arrested on an extradition warrant from the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...--- Egyptian accused of plotting to kill Afghan northern alliance leader freed, re-arrested New Jersey Online (AP) ^ | May 16, 2002 | JILL LAWLESS *********
Updated information on this guy:
LONDON (AP) — An Egyptian activist accused by U.S. authorities of aiding a Muslim cleric with links to the al-Qaida terrorist network professed his innocence during a court hearing Friday. The United States is seeking to extradite Yassir el-Sirri, who lives in London, on charges of sending money to the Afghanistan-based family of Omar Abdel-Rahman, a Muslim cleric identified as the leader of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization known as the Islamic Group. ``I would like to make it known that I am innocent and what the United States government is doing is just fabricating a case against me. I am innocent,'' el-Sirri said through an interpreter.
El-Sirri, who is free on bail, was not asked to enter a formal plea during the hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court.
Abdel-Rahman is serving a life sentence in the United States for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks in the 1990s. El-Sirri was one of four people charged in New York last month with helping Abdel-Rahman spread terrorist messages.
The U.S. extradition warrant alleges that el-Sirri, 39, sent money to Afghanistan in May 2001, ``knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that the money would or may be used for the purpose of terrorism within the jurisdiction of the government of the U.S.A.''
Lawyers for el-Sirri said that their client ran a London-based Islamic organization that regularly sent money to the families of Islamic prisoners. They argued the money sent to Afghanistan, which amounted only to a few hundred dollars, was part of his usual humanitarian work and was not terrorist funding.
El-Sirri was arrested in Britain in October [2001] and charged with conspiring to assassinate Afghan northern alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massood. Massood was mortally wounded in Afghanistan by two suicide bombers on Sept. 9. British prosecutors accused el-Sirri of using his organization, the Islamic Observation Center, to give fake journalistic credentials to two men who detonated a bomb hidden in their camera while they interviewed Massood. -------------- Egyptian Faxes Terror Aid Charge AP 3 posted on 06/02/2002 2:31:53 PM PDT by cgk
OCTOBER 8, 2002 : (ANTWERP : ARREST OF A MOROCCAN IN THE CASE OF THE ASSASSINATION OF AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER MASSOOD) BRUSSELS -- A Belgian court extended Tuesday the detention of a 35-year-old Moroccan accused in connection with the killing last year of the Afghan anti-Taleban commander Ahmad Shah Masood, officials said. The suspect, whose identity has not been officially revealed, was arrested on October 8 in Antwerp and has been charged with complicity in the September 2001 killing of the Afghan opposition leader, a spokesman as said.
The Brussels court extended his detention warrant by a month pending an investigation into an operation to provide false passports, AFP quoted prosecution spokesman Jos Colpin as saying.
Belgian press reports have named the suspect as Ahmed Ellattah, and said he has family ties with Mohamed Sliti, a Belgian national suspected of having helped arrange the trips by Masood's two killers to Afghanistan. According to the daily La Derniere Heure, Ellattah has denied any involvement in the plot, although he has admitted that he knew some of those implicated.
Masood, a charismatic fighter who led the Northern Alliance coalition fighting the Taleban regime, was killed by two suicide bombers posing as journalists. His assassination came just two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States, which sparked U.S. reprisals that led to the ousting of the Taleban late last year.
---Belgium Keeps Suspect in Masood Killing Behind Bars Tehran Times ^ | October 16 2002 [IRAN]
AUGUST 8, 2006 : (ADEL TEBOURSKI IS DEPORTED FROM FRANCE TO TUNISIA -- see ASSASSINATION OF MASSOUD) France has deported a Tunisian man to his homeland despite protests that he could face torture there. Adel Tebourski, 42, was put on an Air France flight back to Tunisia on Monday, officials said. Tebourski had served a jail sentence in France after being convicted of helping the killers of Afghan resistance leader Ahmed Shah Masood in 2001. The French authorities described Tebourski as a serious threat to national security.
French campaigners have said he could be tortured in Tunisia, and the UN torture committee last month called on Paris to suspend his deportation, the French news agency AFP reports. A court in Paris handed Tebourski a six-year jail term in 2005 for offering logistical support to the killers of Masood.
During the trial, Tebourski admitted he was a member of an Islamist cell linked to one of the Tunisian killers. Three other men were sentenced to between two and seven years by the Paris court.
Masood, a leading general in Afghanistan's anti-Taleban Northern Alliance, was blown up in 2001 by two Tunisian men posing as journalists.
The death of the man revered as the "Lion of the Panjshir Valley" stunned the country's then rebel forces, who were soon called to fight alongside US troops in a campaign against the Taleban in late 2001.-------France deports convicted (islamist) Tunisian BBC News ^ | 08/08/2006
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U.S. Embassy Paris released the following Warden Message on December 17:
The American Embassy in Paris reminds all Americans in France of the need to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. Following recent events including the Mumbai attacks, the arrests of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Belgium and France, the Taliban threat to attack French interests, and the recently discovered bombs at a Paris department store, the Embassy reiterates the Department of State Worldwide Caution and concerns about the continued threat of terrorist attacks, demonstrations and other violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests overseas. Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in multiple regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings and bombings.
The full Caution Notice may be found at: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html.
Currently, there is no new, specific, credible information available that would suggest that American citizens or interests are at any elevated risk. Nonetheless, we continue to urge all travelers to practice good personal security:
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March 08, 2010
“Malika El Aroud Trial Begins”
SNIPPET: “Just a reminder of who Malika El Aroud is and why we care about her trial. Ms. el Aroud was the widow of one of the men who murdered the leader of The Northern Alliance the day before 9/11.
More importantly, she ran the Minbar SOS Islamic forum which directly linked al Qaeda to potential recruits, especially among the French speaking jihad eHadi crowd.
The worst part? She was already convicted once in Switzerland for distributing al Qaeda propaganda over the internet. They overlooked her extensive ties to al Qaeda. Then they let her out. The she started recruiting for al Qaeda again. And planning a major attack against the EU.
Are we seeing a pattern here? Oh, that’s really her in the picture.”
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Previously...
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=292176&D=2010-03-08&SO=&HC=1
2010-03-08 Europe
“Belgian trial of Al-Qaeda cell suspects underway”
SNIPPET: “Nine alleged members of an Al Qaeda terror cell, suspected of having recruited jihadists and prepared attacks, go on trial in Brussels Monday.
It comes 15 months after dramatic raids in Brussels and Liege when police arrested nine suspects ahead of what the security services feared was an imminent attack. The arrests, in December 2008, came just days ahead of a European Union summit in the Belgian capital.
Seven of the suspects will be in court when the trial gets underway Monday morning, with an experienced terrorist case judge presiding. Two others, still on the run, will be judged in absentia. While no details of an imminent terrorist attack or explosives were uncovered, the accused face a possible 10 years in jail for their alleged membership of a terrorist group.
The central figure in the trial is 50-year-old Belgian-Moroccan Malika El Aroud. Aroud, who is being held under high security, is the widow of one of the killers of Ahmed Shah Massoud, head of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
According to the Belgian federal prosecutor Aroud, an admirer of Osama bin Laden, led the recruitment of jihad fighters in Belgium, sending young Muslims off to train on the Afghan-Pakistan border. They were sometimes escorted by her second husband, Moez Garsalloui, who is one of those being tried in absentia. According to the prosecutor, he had ties with “important” Al Qaeda figures.”
Trial begins ping.
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