Eurabia Alert. "2 Germans accused of supporting al-Qaida arrested," by Patrick McGroarty for the Associated Press, November 25:
BERLIN (AP) — Two German citizens suspected of distributing propaganda over the Internet supporting al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations were arrested Tuesday, German prosecutors said.
The men — identified only as Daniel P., 26 and Harun Can A., 23 — were among eight suspects whose homes were raided on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
A 19-year-old German citizen identified as Irfan P. was already in custody on separate charges before the morning raids in cities including Augsburg, Duesseldorf and Bremen, where investigators combed through the suspects' computer equipment.
Prosecutors said the three Germans are accused of belonging to the Global Islamic Media Front and of supporting a foreign terrorist organization.
"The suspects are, among other things, strongly suspected of being responsible for many German-language Internet sites," the statement said, "Through them (the suspects) supported and solicited members and supporters for al-Qaida, al-Qaida in Iraq and Ansar Al Islam."
According to prosecutors, the men posted propaganda videos and messages to the group's German-language site and created links to other sites hosted by Islamic terrorist groups.
Federal prosecutor's spokesman Frank Wallenta said two of the videos included a German speaker calling for Germany and Austria to pull their troops out of Afghanistan.
Daniel P. is accused of 18 counts of publishing propaganda to the sites between November 2006 and November 2007. Irfan P. faces 10 counts of the same charge and Harun Can A. faces four.
Wallenta said he could not estimate the maximum prison sentence that each suspect might face because a judge will need to decide which charges they will face and whether to hold them in investigative custody, which could reduce their sentence if convicted.
"It's much to early for that," Wallenta said. [...]
al-Qaida supporters are all over the globe and they need to be stopped. It's good to see that Germany is helping out in the hunt.
Christopher Hamilton
The Right Opinion, for the Right Wing
Too bad the press sees fit to identify them only as "German citizens", when Irfan and Harun are pretty clearly immigrants, or of immigrant descent. I guess it's o.k. to label a terrorist as German, but not as Turkish or Arab.
ebonystone,
If they're Turks, aren't they probably children of the "guest workers" Germany imported decades ago, many from Turkey? This policy led to an entire generation of Muslim children being born in Germany but with no ties to it. I'm surprised they're even citizens. I thought the children of guest workers weren't given German citizenship.
"According to prosecutors, the men posted propaganda videos and messages to the group's German-language site and created links to other sites hosted by Islamic terrorist groups."
Does Germany consider this to be "material support" to terrorists?