Posted on 05/18/2004 11:00:34 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
TOKYO (AP) -- A senior al-Qaida member was based in Japan for more than a year, and investigators suspect he was trying to establish a terror cell, a media report said Tuesday.
Investigators believe that Lionel Dumont -- a French citizen of Algerian descent -- used a fake passport to enter Japan in July 2002 and stayed here until he left for Malaysia in September 2003, Kyodo News agency reported, citing unidentified investigative sources. The report said Dumont provided money and equipment to the network.
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Islamonazis attempting to take further advantage of open societies.
They're everywhere. This war on terror is not going to end any time soon.
FYI - in case you haven't seen it.
I can't seem to find any verification of this guy being arrested. It should have been pretty big news.
A little background.
Dumont's presence has been connected to the planned action in the violent liberation of prisoner Karaj Kamil Bin Ali from Tunis, better known as Abu Hamza in the Zenica prison. Investigators in Mostar suspect that Abu Hamza, a member of the Gamm'at al Islamiya, participated in the September 1997 car bomb in Mostar. After he was arrested in Germany, and extradited to BiH, Abu Hamza was sentenced to nine years in prison, not for the car bombing, but for a series of other criminal acts which took place in the Zenica region. No one has stated why Dumont, who was known to be a distinguished members of GIA and wanted by Interpol, was not arrested together with his group when he arrived in the Zenica area. He arrived in BiH in 1995 on a French passport. Paris officials sought his extradition for terrorism, but without success. In 1997, Dumont killed a police officer in Zenica. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but he disappeared in October 1998 in a spectacular escape during his transfer to the Sarajevo prison.
FYI
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