Brigitte's comrades to face court on terrorism charges By James Clark in Paris April 4, 2005
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Global-Terrorism/Brigittes-comrades-to-face-court -on-terrorism-charges/2005/04/03/1112489349391.html# A group of Willy Brigitte's camping companions are to face a Paris court today accused of establishing a terrorist network that recruited and trained young Muslim men for jihad training at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. French counter-terrorism judges are continuing their investigations into the 36-year-old former French navy sailor suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Australia before he was deported from Sydney in October 2003. A committal hearing in Sydney involving his alleged accomplice, the Pakistan-born architect Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 34, who allegedly trained, like Brigitte, with the banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan, is due to resume on May 2. Five of Brigitte's associates from the late 1990s, when he converted to Islam, are on trial on what is termed a correctional procedure. They risk up to 10 years in prison on the catch-all charge of association with offenders planning a terrorist undertaking. Brigitte's alleged fellow radicals have been linked to the killing of the Afghan guerilla commander Ahmad Shah Massoud two days before the attacks on New York's World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. A 41-year-old Tunisian, Adel Tebourski, last week admitted in court that he supplied false passports, bought plane tickets and changed money in May 2000 for Abd el-Sattar Dahmane and Bouraoui el-Ouaer, who posed as journalists to kill Massoud. Due to testify this week are Ibrahim Keita, the truck driver who shared his flat with Brigitte in the months before he flew to Sydney in May 2003, and Mehrez Azouz and Khellaf Hamam, both 37, who recruited Brigitte in 1998 to their Youth in Movement group at the Omar mosque in Paris. The others are Youcef El Aouni, 31, and Abderrahmane Ameuroud, a 27-year-old Algerian who allegedly trained at al-Qaeda's Al Farouk camp in Afghanistan. The investigating judges allege that the men embarked on paramilitary-style camping trips to prepare for combat in Afghanistan. Defence lawyers say the trips between 1998 and 2001 were simply Boy Scout-style outings for young Muslims. But the judges allege the training, including night marches in snow to emulate conditions in Afghanistan, were more sinister. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
