Denmark: Muslim migrant plotted jihad massacre, gets 16 years prison,
must avoid ‘radicalized people’ for ten years
DEC 22, 2022 2:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
Apparently he can consort with “radicalized people” to his heart’s content after the ten years are up. What can possibly go wrong?
Note also the Danish authorities’ sympathy for the perpetrators rather than the potential victims: Al Masry’s wife will not be deported because she has lived in Denmark for years and knows Danish better than Arabic. Again: what could possibly go wrong?
“Syrian national sentenced to 16 years in prison in Denmark
for preparing bomb terror attack,”
by Thomas Brooke,
ReMix News,
December 21, 2022:
A Danish court sentenced a 35-year-old Syrian national to 16 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of attempted terrorism and of financing and promoting a terrorist organization.
The court in Holbæk, in the suburbs of Copenhagen, found it had been proven that Ali Al Masry had planned and prepared a terrorist attack either in Denmark or abroad.
He was tried alongside his Iraqi-born, 31-year-old wife and his 37-year-old older brother, both of whom also received minor custodial sentences of nine and six months in prison, respectively, for financing terrorist activity after transferring funds to Al Masry.
The sentence is the most severe punishment imposed by a Danish court in a case of terrorism to date, with some of the presiding judges and jurors believing the sentence should have been even higher….
After conducting a search of his villa in the town of Holbæk, Danish authorities recovered 16 kilos of chemicals that can be used to make bombs, in addition to parts of a remote-controlled car that was capable of transporting a bomb weighing up to 20 kilos.
A scan of Al Masry’s computer and personal cell phone recovered bomb manuals and a large quantity of Islamic State propaganda materials, including a number of suicide videos and writings about jihad, according to Danish media….
In addition to his incarceration, the court imposed on Al Masry a contact ban, meaning he must not have contact with other radicalized people for a period of 10 years, as well as a deportation order requiring his removal from Denmark after serving his sentence.
Is that even possible in prison? Aren't prisons where a lot of Muslims are radicalized?
Al Masry’s Iraqi-born, 31-year-old wife was convicted of transferring $750 to her husband, who is understood to have been on the Islamic State’s payroll at the time of the transfer.
The court agreed with the woman’s defense attorney that she should not be deported back to Iraq because she has nothing there for her to be able to cope in the country, despite the protestations of the prosecution.
Astonishing!
“There is no family in Iraq that can take her in and help her. She has lived in Denmark for more than 23 years of her 31-year-old life, speaks fluent Danish and poor Arabic. It would be equivalent to sending me to Iraq,” said her defense attorney during the sentencing hearing.
I'm OK with that!
Al Masry’s older brother, who is 37 years old and was also found guilty of assisting with money transfers to his brother, will be deported following his six month sentence.
It is understood that with the inclusion of time already served, the terrorist’s brother will remain in custody until Jan. 17, when it will again be assessed whether his detention should continue. Upon his release, he will be expelled from Denmark for six years.
Huh? 6 years? And then he can come back. Is he going to learn to be a good Danish citizen after 6 years in Iraq?
Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing appears in US court
By ERIC TUCKER
December 12, 2022
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism.
The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi marked a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground. His arrival in Washington sets the stage for one of the Justice Department’s more significant terrorism prosecutions in recent memory.
“Although nearly 34 years have passed since the defendant’s actions, countless families have never fully recovered,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson said during a court proceeding attended by victims’ relatives.
The Justice Department announced Sunday that Mas’ud had been taken into U.S. custody, two years after it revealed that it had charged him in connection with the explosion. Two other Libyan intelligence officials have been charged in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in the attack, but Mas’ud was the first defendant to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution.
The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Citizens from 21 countries were killed. Among the 190 Americans on board were 35 Syracuse University students flying home for Christmas after a semester abroad.
The bombing laid bare the threat of international terrorism more than a decade before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and produced global investigations and punishing sanctions. Several victims’ relatives who weren’t sure a criminal case would ever be brought described as surreal the news that Mas’ud was finally in American custody.
Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband, Michael, was a Justice Department prosecutor returning from England aboard Pan Am 103, said she felt a “tremendous amount of satisfaction.” She said her husband prosecuted Nazis and felt strongly that there was no statute of limitations for murder.
“He had a fortune cookie adage on his door that said, ‘The law sometimes sleeps, but it never dies.’ This shows that the law never dies, that the United States government is going to take care of its citizens in life and in death and that the government has not forgotten,” Bernstein said.
There is more to this story at APNews.
Jihadist who stabbed four people on a German train is jailed for 14 years
after court dismisses insanity plea and rules his Islamist views were to blame
By AFP and JAMES CALLERY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:49 EST, 23 December 2022 | UPDATED: 10:04 EST, 23 December 2022
A German court sentenced a Syrian-born man on Friday to 14 years in prison for an Islamist knife attack on a train in which he injured four passengers.
The superior regional court in Munich convicted the defendant identified only as Abdalrahman A., 28, of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm for the November 2021 assault.
Why do German courts continue to hide the full names of convicted, adult criminals?
Defence lawyers had argued their client, a Palestinian who grew up in Syrian refugee camps, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and should be placed in psychiatric care.
As I have mentioned many times here, radicalized Muslims are by necessity insane. Search - Dr Wafa Sultan.
But the presiding judge, Jochen Boesl, rejected a defence of mental illness on the basis of seven expert evaluations of the accused, and identified a jihadist motive.
Pictured: The defendant, front, stands together with his lawyers Martin Gelbricht, rear left, and Maximilian Baer,
rear second left, in the courtroom in Munich on Friday, December 23
Boesl said the defendant had frequently listened to radio programmes 'with Islamist content' and from May 2021 'at the latest' began envisioning 'taking part in jihad, or armed combat'.
'These views led him to this act,' Boesl said of the sudden and unprovoked attack on a high-speed train between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg.
'He wanted to kill non-Muslim passengers because they were in his view non-believers and thus had no right to live.'
According to the Quran!
Islamist extremists have committed several violent attacks in Germany in the past several years, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.
The Tunisian attacker, a failed asylum seeker, was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.
More recently, a Syrian jihadist was given a life sentence in May 2021 for stabbing a German man to death and severely wounding his partner in a homophobic attack in the eastern city of Dresden.
Police and emergency services on the secene in Seubersdorf In Der Oberpfalz, between Regensburg and Nuremberg,
on November 6, 2021
The number of people on the Islamist extremist spectrum in Germany fell to 28,290 in 2021 from 28,715 in 2020, according to a report from the BfV federal domestic intelligence agency.
Wow! That should feel a lot better!!!
However, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said the 'potential threat remains high' from Islamist extremism.
The stabbing took place near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, and the train was stopped at Seubersdorf,
southeast of Nuremberg
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