http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=23227&name=Islamic+terrorism+trial+to+test+new+Belgian+law
"Major Islamic terrorism trial to test new Belgian law"
30 August 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BRUSSELS – Belgium is to put 13 suspects on trial in the autumn in what will be the first test of the country's new terrorism laws.
On Monday, a Brussels court ruled there was enough evidence to try 13 people, Moroccans or from Moroccan families, who are alleged to belong to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (MICG).
The extremist Islamic terrorist organisation is believed to have been involved in the bombings in Casablanca and Madrid, among others.
Four of the 13, who all live in Belgium, are considered to be leaders of the group: 39-year-old Abdelkader Hakimi, 29-year-old El Haski, 41-year-old Mostafa Lounani and 31-year-old Abdallah Ouahbour.
The men could face more than 10 years in prison under Belgium's new crime of belonging to a terrorist organisation."
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/09/british-counterinsurgency-expert.html
Jim Kouri is Vice President of the
National Association of Chiefs of Police
Thursday, September 01, 2005
"British Counterinsurgency Expert Arrested in US"
by Jim Kouri, CPP
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In a story resembling a Tom Clancy thriller, a British mercenary accused of conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act in connection with a scheme in 1991 to illegally export a US fighter jet intended for use in killing Pablo Escobar, the then-leader of Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel was arrested in Texas. According to US government officials, he was on his way to attend a security training class at Fort Bliss.
Federal agents arrested reputed British mercenary and counterinsurgency expert David Brian Tomkins, age 63, after he was intercepted at George Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas. Arriving on a flight from London, Tomkins was met by the agents and US Customs inspectors after they determined there was an outstanding Homeland Security Department warrant for his arrest in Miami."