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Two men convicted in Germany over al-Qaida ties
Monday, 19 Jul, 2010
BERLIN: A German court convicted two men of supporting al-Qaida by procuring
equipment and undergoing weapons training, and sentenced them on Monday to
prison terms.
The two 32-year-olds were convicted by the Koblenz state court after a trial
that began in September.
Omer Ozdemir, a Turkish national who grew up in Germany, was sentenced to
six years in prison for membership of a terrorist organization, supporting
al-Qaida and recruiting fighters for the group in Germany.
Ozdemir had admitted that he twice underwent training at a terrorist camp in
Pakistan.
In those camps, he was trained to handle weapons such as mortars and
rocket-propelled grenades, the court said in a statement. When he returned
to Germany in 2006, it was part of his duties to recruit fighters for
al-Qaida, it said.
On his second trip to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region 2008, he stayed
with another al-Qaida member and expected ''to take part in fighting
missions in Afghanistan, the court said.
However, he returned to Germany where he was arrested in September 2008.
Co-defendant Sermet Ilgen, arrested in February 2009, was convicted of
lesser charges and was sentenced to 2 1/2 in prison.
The court convicted both men for procuring money and equipment such as body
armor, a laptop and night-vision goggles for al-Qaida in 2005 and 2006.
The two men, who lived near the German city of Stuttgart, passed on money
and equipment to Aleem Nasir, a German of Pakistani origin who was convicted
last year of al-Qaida membership and violating export laws, the court said.
Nasir was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Defense attorneys had asked for a prison sentence of 4{ years for Ozdemir
and sought acquittal for Ilgen.
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