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July 19, 2005

'Al-Qaeda man' wins German appeal

Topics: Terrorism

In an all too common act of stupidity and dhimmitude, a German-Syrian businessman suspected of funding al-Qaeda has been freed hours after Germany's highest court ruled his arrest warrant was invalid. The court ruled the new European arrest warrant violated German law.

(Image-AFP via BBC News)

Mamoun Darkazanli, 46, who was fighting extradition to Spain, was released from custody in Hamburg, where he had been in detention since last October.

The court ruled the new European arrest warrant violated German law.

The case was a test of the new warrant introduced last year to speed up the handover of terror suspects.

However, that didn't happen and letting a terrorist go free on a technicality is one of the many mistakes that the West can ill afford in the War on Terror. U.S. and German investigators allege Darkazanli opened joint bank accounts with suspected Al Qaeda members and supported their operations. According to the Chicago Tribune, between 1994 and 1998, at least $600,000 moved into Darkazanli's accounts from a range of sources, some with known ties to terrorist groups.

Darkazanli is suspected of helping Wadih El Hage, bin Laden's former personal assistant, purchase a ship in 1994, which bin Laden himself is thought to have owned, according to news and U.S. intelligence reports.

In March 1995, Darkazanli co-signed the opening of a Deutsche Bank account for Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, identified by the CIA as chief of bin Laden's computer operations and weapons procurement, according to news reports. Salim is currently facing charges in the U.S. for the 1988 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. (Darkazanli claimed that gee, I didn't know he was a terrorist)

Eurabia under sharia and the spread of terrorism and violence has just been given another free shot in the arm.

Related - Here's one that's not getting off - he's going away for life.

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