France jails shoe-bomber contact
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4100102.stm
Boy arrested with bin Laden pics
(ahem...he's 19 and had a HECK of alot more on him than pics!)
French police on Thursday detained a 19 year-old man who was found to be in possession of detonators, chemicals and pictures of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, officials said. (snip)
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1722408,00.html
Velveeta, if you get the 19-year-old's name, would you please post it?
THANKS.
A few more details...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/06/006671print.html
June 16, 2005
"Paris court convicts three aides to shoebomber Reid"
"Convicted, yes, but sentenced to "slap on the wrist" prison terms. From Reuters:"
PARIS -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rama, 67, a Pakistani with joint British nationality, has already spent three years in jail awaiting trial. It was not immediately clear if he would appeal.
His co-accused, Frenchmen Hakim Mokhfi and Hassan El Cheguer, both aged 31, were each jailed for four years, one year suspended. The court ordered them released as they have been in preventive detention since June 2002.
All three men had pleaded not guilty.
During the trial, the court heard that according to French intelligence, Rama had used trips to Britain, New York, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia between 2001 and 2002 as cover while he organized terrorist attacks.
A French probe on Reid's activities in France revealed he had used a Paris cyber cafe to contact Pakistan, a trail that led them to Rama, president of the Straight Path Muslim charity.
Rama told police he saw Mokhfi and Cheguer with Reid. His lawyer said before the trial began that Rama was sick and confused when police first asked him if he recognized a photograph of Reid..."
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