Kochi - Three Afghan nationals were arrested at the Nedumbaserry International Airport, near here, today for travelling on fake Mexican passports, Immigration officials said.
The three were earlier in the day deported from Kuwait after authorities there doubted their claim to be Mexican nationals. Immigration and other security officials interrogated the three for several hours and finally arrested them on charges of travelling on forged passports.
According to Immgiration officials, they were Afghan nationals trying to go to France. However, their real names have not been disclosed so far. The Mexican passports which they were carrying identified them as Antonio Lopez Juan (42), Javier Sanchez Alberto (20) and Atonio Lopez Ernesto (16). They had left from Nedumbaserry Airport on February 11 for Kuwait en route to France.
However, the emigration officials at Kuwait had found them to be suspects as they reportedly could not understand any Spanish. They also suspected the passports to be forged. The three were then deported to Nedumbaserry today. The three had reportedly arrived in New Delhi on January 23 this year, as per the stamps on their passports. However, there was some doubt about the authenticity of the arrival stamps on the passports also, emigration officials said.
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SCHLESWIG, Germany - A Jordanian confessed in a plea agreement to co-founding a terrorist group, telling a court as his trial opened Wednesday that he participated in online discussions about setting up a training camp in Sudan.
Thaer Alhalah, 33, told the Schleswig-Holstein state court he had contact with other group members through online chat groups and telephone calls starting in April 2006. Asked when the plans to start a camp in Sudan took form, Alhalah said: "They just developed." Speaking in Arabic through a translator, he told the court that jihad, or holy war, "for a Muslim is self defense." "If someone attacks my country or my belongings with violence, I am ready to defend my country and my belongings with weapons," he said.
The confession to charges of founding a terrorist organization abroad was part of a plea deal that means Alhalah will be sentenced at most to two years in prison, compared to the legal maximum of up to 10 years. With the time he has already served while awaiting trial and German laws requiring only a percentage of a sentence be served, he will most likely be freed and sent back to Jordan in April, prosecutors said.
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