Posted on 12/14/2002 6:31:59 PM PST by Stultis
Report: second suspect in Tunisian synagogue attack has left Germany
BERLIN - A second man under investigation in connection with a deadly attack on a Tunisian synagogue in April has left Germany, a German news magazine reported Saturday.
The man left Germany for Sudan back in May, the Der Spiegel weekly reported. It identified him only as Musa A.
According to the report, investigators suspect the man of being a recruiter for the al-Qaida terror network. A month before the attack on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba, he had traveled to Saudi Arabia, from where he brought back videos featuring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the report said.
The magazine didn't detail any suspected links between Musa A. and the synagogue attack. Prosecutors were not immediately available for comment Saturday.
Der Spiegel said the German-Sudanese man was a friend of Christian G., another suspect in the attack, which left 19 people dead, 14 of them German tourists. Christian G. was allowed to leave Germany last month because there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors have said that, according to testimony from another terror suspect, Christian G., had access to the innermost circle of al-Qaida leaders and may have been responsible for recruiting members in Germany.
Christian G. was traced as the recipient of an intercepted phone call from Nizar Naouar, the leading suspect in the attack on the synagogue who is believed to have died in the suicide mission.
He reportedly left Germany for Saudi Arabia and, according to Der Spiegel, investigators doubt he will return. He entered Saudi Arabia on a one-month tourist visa that has expired, and gave up the lease on his apartment in the town of Muehlheim before he left, the magazine said.
German authorities were also unable to hold Syrian-born Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who is believed to have been closely connected to the Hamburg al-Qaida cell that included lead Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta.
After the attacks, German authorities questioned Zammar but let him go for lack of evidence. He then left the country for Morocco, where he was picked up and deported to Syria. Zammar is now in Syrian custody being questioned and has reportedly admitted to recruiting Atta.
German investigated over Tunisia synagogue bombing allowed to leave the country
I wonder if there might not be a rather significant number of perps, walking free and unmolested in the politically correct West, who it would be more "convenient" to have turn up in some Middle Eastern shiite hole where they can be (in order of preference) whacked, nabbed or put on ice.
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