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Germany indicts third man in al-Qaeda plot
Dec 20, 2007, 12:57 GMT
Karlsruhe, Germany - Germany has indicted a third man in an alleged five-man al-Qaeda group said to have been setting up a school for terrorists in Sudan and sending suicide bombers to Iraq.
Prosecutors in the southern justice capital of Karlsruhe said Thursday that Abdel Ali M, a 25-year-old Moroccan, was accused of supporting a terrorist group, helping set it up abroad in June and July 2006.
M was extradited from Sweden to Germany in May and indicted on November 18, but this was not made public at the time.
He had also recruited three Islamists from Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and helped smuggle them to Iraq.
The first member of the gang to be arrested, Germany-based Redouane al-H, has been on trial since July.
The group chatted online with other Islamists as police listened in. Al-H has told the court that when a member of an Islamist internet community was arrested, the others told one another he was 'sick.' The codeword for a suicide bomber was 'taxi driver.'
Another suspect, Thaer A, aged 33, who was picked up by Swedish police in March and extradited, was indicted by Germany in October. He is accused of planning a camp for terrorists in Sudan.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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