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An update on this story. "Belgian court jails Iraq suicide bomb recruiters," by Julian Ponthus for the Associated Press:
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court convicted five Islamist militants on Thursday of belonging to a group that recruited suicide bombers in Belgium to go abroad, including a female convert who blew herself up in Iraq.
Belgian Bilal Soughir, the only accused currently in detention, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for being the ringleader of a terrorist organization.
"Bilal deliberately assisted terrorist circles in Iraq," presiding judge Pierre Hendrickx told the court. He said the network aimed to help impose a radical vision of Islam rather than simply freeing Iraq from U.S. occupation.
"This whole case is steeped in a climate of religious intolerance," he said.
Muriel Degauque, a 38-year-old Muslim convert dubbed the "Belgian kamikaze" by the media, blew herself up near a U.S. patrol in November 2005 in what was believed to be the first suicide attack by a European woman in Iraq.
Soughir denied being aware of her plans despite tapped phones conversations in which he welcomed news of her death.
Degauque came from a working-class family in the economically depressed region around Charleroi. Her partner, Issam Goris, was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq a day after her suicide attack.
Of the four men tried in absentia, Pascal Cruypenninck, another Belgian convert to Islam, was sentenced to five years. He was accused of trying to enlist his girlfriend, a 17-year-old Rwandan, to carry out a suicide attack in Iraq with him.
Souhaieb Soughir, a Tunisian national and brother of Bilal, was sentenced to 28 months in jail.
Narbil Karmun received five years in prison, two of them suspended.
Younes Loukili, a militant who admitted fighting in Iraq against the U.S. occupation and, like Karmun, a Belgian of North African origin, received a five-year suspended sentence.
Three weeks ago, Belgium stepped up security against a potential attack, prompting by the thwarting of what authorities said was a plot to spring an al Qaeda sympathizer from jail.
Security at the court on Thursday was tight and extensive searches of the public caused the verdict to be delayed.
Analysts say that Islamic militants are using Belgium, which hosts NATO, the European Union institutions and the offices of a raft of multinational companies, as a logistics and support base for attacks in other countries.
Posted by Marisol at January 10, 2008 8:46 PM
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"Belgian court jails Iraq suicide bomb recruiters" ?
Make that recruiter, singular. The other four are free and clear. This verdict is less than it appears.
Four of the five are still out and about. It's a safe bet that no Islamic country would deport them to Belgium. They'll sleep soundly. All they have to do is remain in dar-al-Islam and they have nothing to worry about.
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at January 10, 2008 8:59 PM
I wonder what 10 years of Belgian prison time translates into in real time.
Posted by: Ernest T Bass at January 10, 2008 9:04 PM
I wonder if the Belgiums, or other Western, nations, have ever wondered how they'll prosecute terrorist' when Muslim judges are occupying seats on courts.
Given time, and more Muslim immigration, and they'll find out to theie dismay.
Posted by: rational at January 10, 2008 9:29 PM
They are willing to kill or be killed, and we are willing to slap their wrists. Hmmmm.
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at January 10, 2008 10:37 PM
When caught,they should be jailed for as long as islam exists
Posted by: shiva at January 11, 2008 4:08 AM
If you scroll down the forum page in the following link, you will find a short history of the Islamization of the Kurds. Scholars have yet to settle the issue of alternate fundamentalist and critical doctrinarianism in Islamic communities. Kurds might be the ideal test tube culture.
http://www.qirayis.de/forum-thread-459--DESC.html
Some Muslim apologists pretend that the ambiguities of islamic-jurisprudence (fiqh), which have caused academic sectarianism (madhabs), suggest that free thought is possible in Islam. In fact, Muslims are born slaves-of-allah, and there mental slavery pertuates that relationship with their fictitious deity. If this generation of Kurds is benign, you can be assured that the next will be belligerent. Future generations will despise us for nation-building in the Muslim cess pools.
Posted by: supercargo at January 11, 2008 4:49 AM
"He was accused of trying to enlist his girlfriend, a 17-year-old Rwandan, to carry out a suicide attack in Iraq with him."
...mommas don't let your daughters date Muslims...
...they always alone and just wanting to bomb...
...innocents, children, and such....
at January 11, 2008 6:19 AM
"Belgian Bilal Soughir"
He is no more belgian than I am!! They do this all the time, call them English cos they reside here in England, may even have been born here but because they keep themselves in their own little communities, they should in no way be descibed as "English", "Belgian" or whatever!!
Bilal sounds like a good strong Belgian name doesn't it!! NOT!
Posted by: Demvaril at January 11, 2008 6:22 AM
So, Bush wants to build a bridge between Hamas in Gaza, to Fatah in the West Bank, this will give Hamas the access, the ability to take control of everything, and that may just happen.
Three states back down to two, and Hamas did not sign anything. They got no seat at the peace talks.
Unless this is considered to be possible, how will this effect peace?
Am I missing somthing?
Posted by: Islofob IS-1 at January 11, 2008 3:58 PM
How do they get jail time, they should be fingerprinted and banished to Palestine forever. They shouldn't be allowed to enter any western country EVER! I am so scared that these guys will get out of jail then try to emigrate to Canada or the U.S. with a claim of political persecussion, and they might just get it. Then we have to deal with them.
These people have no business in the West and should be banished to an Islamic country. If Islam is so great, then why do they want to leave so bad??
Posted by: joeyindc at January 12, 2008 10:25 AM
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