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Germany grants early release to Muslim convicted of aiding 9/11 jihad terrorists

Oct 17, 2018 9:57 am By Robert Spencer

Sure, he is an accessory to the murder of nearly 3,000 people, but German authorities don’t want to appear to be “Islamophobic.” Meanwhile, what will Mounir el Motassadeq do in Morocco? Learn a trade and become a loyal, productive citizen? Or return to the jihad?

“Man convicted of helping 9/11 terrorists is all smiles after early release,” by Ruth Brown, New York Post, October 16, 2018 (thanks to S.):

That’s a real killer smile.

A Moroccan man convicted of helping the 9/11 terrorists carry out their plot flashed a huge grin as he flew home a free man on Monday after being released early from his meager sentence in Germany.

Mounir el Motassadeq was sentenced to just 15 years behind bars for accessory to murder in 2006, but received credit for time served after his initial arrest in 2001 — and was freed shortly before finishing even that stretch to be deported to his homeland.

German courts ruled that he was part of the so-called “Hamburg cell” with ringleader Mohamed Atta and two of the other extremists, and was aware the three planned to hijack and crash planes — if not all the details of the plot, which took 2,997 lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

El Motassadeq, who admitted to training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, helped “watch the attackers’ backs and conceal them” by paying their tuition and rent so they could keep up appearances as students in Germany as they plotted, the court found.

He maintained that he knew nothing of his friends’ plans to attack the US.

“I swear by God that I did know the attackers were in America,” he shouted in German at a sentencing hearing.

“I swear by God that I did not know what they wanted to do.”

Victims’ loved ones were horrified when news that el Motassadeq would soon be free first broke in August.

“He was found guilty of 246 counts of accessory to murder — one for each of the passengers who died on all the four hijacked flights that day,” Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the American Airlines plane that was flown into the Pentagon, told the Boston Herald at the time.

“It’s shocking he only got 15 years and this sends the message the cost of human life is cheap in Germany.”…

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  1. Elisha says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 10:09 am

    “Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ But I tell you NOT TO SWEAR AT ALL: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ ANYTHING MORE COMES FROM THE EVIL ONE.” – Matthew 5:33-37

    Are we learning yet?

  2. andra says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 10:57 am

    The German laws do not work like the US laws do. In Germany a “lifetime sentence” means 15 years. On top the German law does not add several murder sentences together. When you have been charged with several murders you still get ONE lifetime sentence of 15 years.

    As the German law Always works in order to re-socialize the convict, the custody is substracted from the final sentence. When the convict behaves well in prison the sentence gets also shortened on a regular base. So the early release is usual standard in German justice. All the RAF-terrorists we had in Germany in the 70ies and who did not commit suicide in prison got released earlier as well.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 2:00 pm

      The German justice policies seem perhaps wise, but surely not in the current context. If Islam is a an expansionist totalitarian system using terror and violence and migration to achieve domination of as many nations as possible, then the situation is not ordinary, is more like war, and the responses to enemy soldiers — particularly those without uniforms, who are not covered by the Geneva Conventions, I gather — surely must be more serious. But the biggest problem is not short sentences. Probably the biggest problem is the continued influx or hijra of Muslims into Europe. The more that happens, the more difficult will it be to resist Islamization and the abysmal human rights situation that results from Islamization.

      • andra says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 4:26 pm

        I totally agree with you. The offender-protection in Germany takes insane steps, especcially with Muslim perpetrators.
        You can only treat the jihadists as foreign soldiers if you admit that these migrants are invadors and our situation is war-like. As long as the muslim Influx is not treated as an invasion nothing will change. And as long as the left governments are in charge it will not be admitted.
        With the global Migration act, which will be signed by Germany if we do not get rid of Merkel and her Cabinet until December there is no way any more to stop the muslim troops from flooding Germany, and I guess, France, Spain, Great Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Norway and … I think, Austria will sign as well, because the FPÖ is quite weak in their demands.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 5:10 pm

      Yes–the idea that a few years is a “life sentence” is just crazy.

    • Ren says

      Oct 18, 2018 at 3:28 am

      100% richtig Andra. 100% right Andra. In the case of this young man, I think he got too much. I believe him that he did not know the details. People who knew him personally are convinced (all of them are Germans who knew him in the 1990s and before people had heard the word: “Islamophobic”) that he is completely innocent of any conspiracy. It is true that the German justice system is nothing like the one in the US, Canada or the UK. No prisoner ever dies in prison unless they commit suicide. If somebody is very ill, they get released. Nobody dies in prison of old age etc. For people raised in Germany, The judicial system in other western countries, particularly the aforementioned, is very scary.
      This very young man here, in my opinion, should have been released years ago. I think Germany wanted to please the USA here. Don’t get me wrong, if he had been involved in it, I would be ok with his sentence, however, in this case, I am not.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 11:18 am

    First, it’s very important , in fact so important that is should be reiterated that we must let them, the apologists for Islam , fool or deceive us .For the many propagandists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam by making the bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for Politics.” Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the “holy book” of Islam the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one. Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” Let’s face it, using jet planes a missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” then sword can. Wake up West to the actual nature of Islam before it’s too late.

    Second, we must also remember that concerning 9/11 which everyone knows is the specific day of September 11, 2001 in the murderous affront against humankind and heinous jihad attack in America occurred by the deluded and evil jihadists operatives of that hideous jihad entity al Qaeda is a tragic example of the harm that men operating under the deception of a false religion can cause. Furthermore, concerning that past 9/11 jihad affront against humankind and America . First, the violent deadly jihad-minded Muslims are of this malicious and murderous mindset because they have in thoroughly indoctrinated with Qur ‘an based hard core non-watered down Islam. Not some kind of “hijacked” or “warped” Islam. Second, this should also serve as a reminder that Jihadist are still scheming and possible future Islamic murderous jihad attack in Americans homeland carried out by Muslim who are also violent and dangerous jihadists suicide/homicide – bombers /attackers with Islamic delusion they have because of the false doctrines of Islam. Likewise with their mad and irrational deluded Islam quest they are so thoroughly brainwashed and deluded that they actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.” This jihad evil and madness is based on the Koranic doctrine, 9:111. , of a far-fetched and nonsensical doctrine of a sex- filled paradise with many virgins, hours, in it for the use only the jihadist/Muslim male who dies as a “martyr” fighting for the cause of Islam. This weird religious/Islamic teaching is found contained the Koran in 44:56. .55:56. 78:31. This bizarre and odd, irrational Koranic doctrine is not open, to the jihadist, to inquiry, questioning, logic or reason. So this blind unreasoning kind of “faith” in the Koran is a reminder that Thomas Jefferson had written. “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” Likewise, Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK something which may apply to this topic. For Mr. Franklin had printed “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

  4. mummymovie says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    And there he is, sitting on…

    wait for it…

    an AIRPLANE!

    Thanks for the insight Andra on the German justice system, but I say nonetheless that Merkel’s dhimmi authorities and jihad/hijra facilitators are compromised beyond redemption, and furthermore even willingly on the other side.

    To hell with them.

    Shameful and disgusting.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 1:19 pm

      mmmm, what are YOU going to do to speak to Muslims and deprogram them? What are you doing to inform Western people about the jihad doctrine, kafir doctrine, taqiyya doctrine, etc.? Venting doesn’t do much. At jihadwatch, you preach to the choir.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 1:28 pm

        So right. And it sounds like you must be doing something, mortimer, which I’m glad to hear…

        Here’s something people can do: donate to Spencer’s AFDI. Join Brigitte Gabriel’s Act for America.

      • mummymovie says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 2:17 pm

        Yes, mort- Since you are undoubtedly doing so much, I would greatly appreciate some tips and suggestions from you with regard to my ongoing counter-jihad activities, particularly those with which I might persuade muslims to abandon islam for good, regardless of the threat of violence and stigmatization they face for doing so.

        Please enlighten me.

        But I DO indeed feel that supporting muslims -new immigrants and otherwise- who wish to, and have finally decided to, leave islam (in their new homelands, in the case of new arrivals) is absolutely essential to our objective.

        And thanks, ed, for the AFA and AFDI tips; I’m already there. I wish I had more money to donate to Brigitte, Pam, Robert, and groups like Britain First and Tommy Robinson’s legal defense fund than the modest amounts I am regularly able to get to them.

        Working on it.

        LAN ASTASLEM

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 5:51 pm

        Mortimer, castigating mummymovie for not “deprogramming” Muslims is silly, since this has *never* worked. Muslims do not listen to the “filthy Infidels”.

        Since you are always advocating this, how many Muslims have you been able to “deprogram” at this point?

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    Germany and other Western countries should URGENTLY begin to develop PROTOCOLS for de-programming Muslim terrorists in jail, so that at the end of their sentences, they will be TEACHING and DEPROGRAMMING other Muslims with a mastery of the content of the protocols. The content will consist of the findings of the REVISIONIST SCHOOL of Islamology which analyzes the primary source texts and historical record for inconsistencies, anomalies and outright impossibilities which render Islamic faith impossible for a reasonable person and very tenuous for someone less reasonable.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 1:50 pm

      Agree, though this is nowhere near politically possible in Germany, and might never be possible. The fact that Islam is a religion is proving a strong shield for Islam’s political totalitarianism — not just in Germany, but in the US and the rest of Europe. It is hard to deprogram violent totalitarianism when that is so intimately bound up with the religious tenets in the core texts of Islam. Since totalitarianism is part of the very core of Islam, and is so intimately and indissolubly bound up in those texts with the religious aspects, perhaps with Islam it is unavoidable that an exception is made to the freedom of religion principle. If the religion and the totalitarianism cannot be disentangled because historically they are too intimately bound up with each other and with Muhammad’s example and teaching, then the religion, as a form of political totalitarianism, should be contained and limited in every legal way possible. An alternative course, perhaps equally unlikely, is for the authorities to pretend they can separate the political from the religious aspects of Islam, and under cover of that conceit, create a new “Islam” that would be unpolitical. Unfortunately, Islam uses our freedom against us, and that is making it very hard to resist when such a strategy is combined with a population whose vanguard is willing to kill indiscriminately those who resist. Left and Right must listen more to each other on all things, reject mutual demonization and the political leaders who foment polarization. We need to increase the amount of cooperation and forge a united front to contain the spread of Islam. Atheists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and others must unite in seeking to contain the totalitarian ambitions of Islam.

      • James Lincoln says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 6:10 pm

        Eduardo,

        Imagine if Nazism had been a protected religion during World War II.

        A strong shield indeed for political totalitarianism.

        World War II may have ended very differently.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 6:07 pm

      Mortimer, when had pious Muslims ever listened to Infidels and apostates?

      And what possible problems could there be with hiring Muslim criminals to “deprogram”: other Muslims? sarc/off

  6. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    Those Germans who set him free — do they hate Americans? Or do they think that Americans were partly to blame for 9/11? Maybe they are “9/11 truthers”? Or are they fearful, appeasing, cowards? Maybe it has nothing to do with anti-Americanism. Maybe this is just the same suicidal behavior the German government has been engaging in via the deadly Merkel? The fact that Germany still has not thrown Merkel out of office does not speak well for Germany — still, things are changing there, people are waking up, but too slowly.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 6:16 pm

      Eduardo, I imagine this just has to do with the anemic German judicial system in general. Even the worst criminals serve pathetically soft sentences.

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    Germany grants early release to Muslim convicted of aiding 9/11 jihad terrorists
    ……………………….

    Just sickening.

  8. Terra Nova says

    Oct 18, 2018 at 8:08 am

    This guy in the airplane must love the Germans now and he will never act out a horrible crime again in his life. (sarc) of course.
    And Mortimer, I find you one of the best writers of JW. I wished I had the knowledge and could write like you, but in one thing I can not agree with you and that is how you want to deprogram all muslims.
    It will take lifetimes, you can not deprogram muslims. Do you think they will listen to a nonmuslim? As being superior over us? And who is going to pay for that all? Aren’t we paying enough already? Try it,
    let them pay for it themselves, make it obligatory. You will see, all hell will brake loose, which will break loose any way one day.
    You can not trust a muslim EVER. It is in their book and in their blood. From generation on generation.
    It is not possible. Muslims who have come to our countries will still have this in them till the 7th generation, if they ever get wisened up. I wished it would be that way, but it is not and will not happen.
    A muslim will always stay a muslim and when worse gets to worse, even the moderate muslim will be on the side of the violent muslim, because some of them are really afraid of their own “Brotherhood” fellowmen.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2018 at 12:02 am

      +1

  9. Craig Murphy says

    Oct 18, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    If he were so rehabilitated, why didn’t they allow him to stay in Germany?

  10. Hector Archytas says

    Oct 19, 2018 at 9:55 am

    They are not treated as ennemy at war because it is not considere to be a war

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