Posted on 04/29/2003 3:59:17 PM PDT by blam
BRAZILIAN POLICE ARREST EGYPTIAN SUSPECTED OF TERRORISM.
SAO PAULO: Police in southern Brazil have arrested an Egyptian believed to be a member of the terrorist group that killed 58 foreign tourists in the Egyptian city of Luxor in 1997. Mohammed Ali al-Mahdi Ibrahim Soliman was arrested in front of his house in the city of Foz de Iguacu. The Supreme Court had ordered Soliman's arrest after receiving a request from Egypt for his extradition to face charges of terrorism. Soliman has been living in Brazil for the past eight years and is married to a Brazilian woman with whom he has a two-year-old daughter.
Brazil police arrest terror suspect wanted by Egypt;
Kyodo World News Service; New York; New York; Apr 17, 2002
Dateline: RIO DE JANEIRO, April 16
By: Lenilson Ferreira Brazilian federal police have arrested a man charged with terrorist activities in Egypt and wanted by Cairo, authorities said Tuesday.
The arrest order for Mohamed Ali Aboul-Ezz Al-Mahdi Ibrahim Soliman was issued by the Brazilian Supreme Court in accordance with an official extradition request from the Egyptian government.
Soliman was detained Monday afternoon in Foz do Iguacu in the southern state of Parana by the border with Argentina and Paraguay, according to the police.
The region is home to Arab immigrants whom the United States has accused of cooperation with terrorist organizations in the Middle East, but the administration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has vehemently denied the charges.
The Supreme Court's records on the case show Soliman also identifies himself as Ahmed Al Sayyed Ibrahim Soliman, Mohamed Ali Abul-Mahdi Soliman and four other names.
"We suspect he is a member of the Al Gamma Islamiya group, one of the main extremist organizations in Egypt," Federal Police Director Joaquim Mesquita told Kyodo News.
Soliman reportedly took part in a terrorist attack against Egyptian and foreign tourists in Cairo in 1994 at the peak of a campaign against the administration of President Hosni Mubarak.
The federal police have drawn up a high-security plan to fly Soliman to Brasilia, some 1,600 kilometers away in central Brazil, where the Supreme Court is based.
"His arrest is part of the international hysteria which has followed the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York last September," Soliman's lawyer Fernando Antunes said.
But the federal police said the arrest has nothing to do with the global antiterror campaign because Soliman has been under investigation since 2000.
Antunes said Soliman fled Egypt because he feared he would be killed by his Catholic family.
"He converted to Islam, and this gives his family the right to kill him under Egyptian tradition," Antunes said, adding the Egyptian government declared Soliman a deserter because he left the country at the time of his military service.
Soliman's family has strong influence in Egypt and has pressed Cairo to request his extradition from Brazil, he said.
"My client has told me he will be killed if he is sent back to Egypt," Antunes said.
The Brazilian police suspect Soliman is connected to his countryman Said Hassan Ali Mohamed Mokhles, who is imprisoned in Uruguay.
Mokhles was caught in January 1999 when he attempted to cross the border with Brazil with a counterfeit passport, according to local daily Folha de Sao Paulo. The paper has said Soliman was first arrested in Brazil in January 1999 on a smuggling charge.
The lawyer has said his client has a 2-year-old daughter with a Brazilian woman, and the Constitution prohibits his extradition under such a circumstance.
That's true. According to published reports, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed spent 20 days there in 1995.
Ahmed Al Sayyed Ibrahim Soliman
Pretty close, I'd say.
BTW the "murder by catholic family" is 99% probably B.S. Asylum seekers need an angle to claim persecution, religious is common.
If this is the "proof" there was no anthrax, this only excites suspicion more. It's absolute B.S. we don't know when and how he was infected. Also, the logic here is that if one person in Leahy's office was infected, the fact no one else was proves it wasn't anthrax.
http://www.stf.gov.br/jurisprudencia/pesquisa/
| Ext 836 / ** - REPÚBLICA ÁRABE DO EGITO EXTRADIÇÃO Relator(a): Min. CARLOS VELLOSO Publicação: Julgamento: Tribunal Pleno |
| Ementa EMENTA: - CONSTITUCIONAL. EXTRADIÇÃO. PEDIDO NÃO INSTRUÍDO REGULARMENTE. DILIGÊNCIA NÃO ATENDIDA. I. - Diligência reclamando a vinda para os autos de documentos, a fim de ser instruído, regularmente, o pedido: as normas relativas à prescrição do delito; cópia da legislação que autoriza o Procurador-Geral da República do Estado requerente a decretar a prisão de indiciados ou réus; se o crime imputado comporta pena de morte; se o grupo terrorista, do qual participaria o extraditando, está em atividade ou, em caso negativo, quando cessaram suas atividades. Diligência não cumprida, motivo por que deve o pedido ser indeferido, não havendo óbice, entretanto, de ser formulado novo pedido, desde que instruído do modo a permitir o exame da matéria pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal. II. - Extradição indeferida. |
Bablefish translation:
Summary SUMMARY: - CONSTITUTIONAL. EXTRADITION. ORDER NOT INSTRUCTED REGULARLY. DILIGENCE NOT TAKEN CARE OF. I. - Diligence complaining the coming for document files of legal documents, in order to be instructed, regularly, the order: the relative norms to the limitation of to prosecute; copy of the legislation that authorizes Procurador-Geral of the Republic of the petitioning State to decree the arrest of accused or guilty; if the imputed crime floodgate death penalty; if the terrorist group, of which would participate extraditing, is in activity or, in negative case, when they had ceased its activities. Diligence not fulfilled, reason why it must the order be rejected, not having obstacle, however, of being formulated new order, since that instructed in the way to allow the examination of the substance for the Supreme Federal Court. II. - rejected Extradition.
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