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Titolo: La Francia demolisce una cellula islamica che reclutava terroristi


France Seizes 11 Accused of Plotting Iraq Attacks [excerpt]
By ELAINE SCIOLINO 
Published: January 27, 2005
PARIS, Jan. 26 -France has smashed a cell that was recruiting fighters
to join the insurgency in Iraq, intelligence and law enforcement 
officials said Wednesday.
In police raids on Monday and Wednesday after intensive and lengthy 
surveillance, French authorities arrested nine men and two women, and 
more arrests are expected, the officials said. The timing was linked
to information that at least two of those arrested were poised to
leave for Iraq, perhaps to carry out suicide attacks, they added. 
The raids, at several locations in northeast Paris, represent the
first time in the Europe-wide campaign to crack down on the
recruitment of insurgents that an entire cell has been dismantled, the
officials said. 
It was also the first such operation in France since Dominique de 
Villepin, the minister of the interior, stepped up surveillance of 
mosques, prayer halls and demonstrations throughout France after the 
terrorist bombings in Madrid last March.
The French officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the 
delicate intelligence matters and the criminal investigation. 
Two men were also arrested Sunday in Germany, suspected of being part
of an operation that has helped at least a dozen men travel from
Germany to Iraq to join the insurgency. At least two men are believed
to have been planning suicide attacks, German officials say.
Senior investigators throughout Europe say they have seen growing 
evidence that young Muslim men are willing to travel to Iraq to fight 
against the American-led occupation. "This is just the beginning," a 
senior German official said. "There will be more arrests made of 
recruiters soon." 
Senior European counterterrorism officials say the movement of young
men from Europe has not come close to the levels seen in the 1980's,
when at least 10,000 men traveled to Afghanistan to fight against the
Soviet occupation. So far, there seems to be little coordination of
the recruitment efforts across Europe's borders, and French officials 
emphasize that the cell they reported dismantling was a local affair. 
Counterterrorism officials said there was no concrete evidence that 
Iraq's most prolific terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was involved in 
the recruitment, or that Ansar al-Islam, a European-based terrorist 
group once located in northern Iraq that has maintained loose ties
with Mr. Zarqawi, was aiding the effort.
Investigators say they are reluctant to estimate how many people have 
left Europe to join the insurgency. American military officials in
Iraq also admit they do not know the precise number of outside
fighters, although French intelligence officials estimate that there
are 2,000 to 3,000 foreign fighters in Iraq.
A senior intelligence official based in Europe said Wednesday that he 
believed the number was considerably higher than that. But he added
that even with the recent increased activity in Europe, most recruits
are from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Kuwait.
There are only a small number of fighters who have gone from France, 
perhaps no more than a dozen or so, French officials say, but since
last July, five French insurgents have been killed in Iraq. Four were
linked to the cell that was dismantled, the Interior Ministry official
said.
In addition, France's foreign intelligence service has identified a 
French citizen of a middle-class background and Algerian origin as the
head of a group of an estimated 20 fighters in the Falluja area. 
With its large Arab and Muslim population, France is determined that
the country does not become a recruiting ground for Iraq that way it
did for Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, Bosnia and Chechnya.
The recent crackdown was the direct result of a formal investigation 
begun after a 19-year-old Frenchman, Redouane el-Hakim, was killed 
during an American bombardment of Falluja in July. 
At least some of the members of the cell that was broken up this week 
had known Mr. Hakim, and his brother, Boubakeur el-Hakim, who is being
held in Syria after being caught trying to cross to Iraq.
What particularly worries French officials is that all the nine men 
arrested this week were in their early 20's and from middle- and 
working-class backgrounds. They grew up and went to schools and sports
clubs in the same neighborhood in northeast Paris and often used
Addawa Mosque there as a place of contact.
The police and intelligence officials emphasized that the mosque
itself was apparently not involved in the recruitment.
All those arrested are French. Eight of the nine have North African 
ethnic origins; one is a Christian convert to Islam. The two women are
not believed to have been involved in any recruitment but were
detained as family members of the suspects. 
At least some members of the group have been under surveillance since 
their involvement in demonstrations in 2003 against the war in Iraq
and in 2004 against the ban on the wearing of Islamic head scarves in
French schools, intelligence and law enforcement officials said. 
Under France's sweeping antiterrorism laws, the 11 can be kept under 
investigation for 96 hours on suspicion of "criminal association with
a terrorist enterprise" without being formally indicted. One of the
women was released on Wednesday. 
The cell was headed by Farid Benyettou, a 24-year-old who followed the
Salafist fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, law enforcement 
officials said. His brother-in-law was a leader of a cell of the 
Algerian-based Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat and was
deported to Algeria in 1998 after the French authorities dismantled
his cell.
Addawa, a former fabric warehouse, is one of the largest mosques in 
Paris. Since 1989, its prayer leader has been the Algerian-born Larbi 
Kechat. Eleven years ago he was placed in detention for 22 days by the
interior minister at the time, Charles Pasqua, on suspicion of
preaching anti-Western sermons. He was released after both Muslim and
Catholic leaders came out in his defense.
While European officials see the latest arrests as progress in their 
efforts against terrorism, following through with convictions is hard.
In a Milan court on Monday evening, Judge Clementina Forleo dismissed 
terrorism charges against three Tunisians and two Moroccans arrested
on 
charges of recruiting suicide bombers and supporting Islamic terror 
organizations for operations in Iraq. She ruled that the evidence did 
not show "acts that went beyond guerrilla activity."
Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said Tuesday that he was "enraged" by
the ruling. 
Don Van Natta Jr. contributed reporting from London for this article
and Jason Horowitz from Rome.
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Si capisce fondamentalmente da due cose...
Dite sempre "giudici di sinistra" e quotate come cani...
Ma siete tutti figli dello stesso dio minore?

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Sě, quello delle "radici cristiane dell'occidente"
Un Dio minore che crea solo idioti. 


Dai su torna a letto che adesso è tardi per sparare minchiate...
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