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November 27, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1069493518148

Palestinian Islamist Gives Insight into Workings of Al-Qaeda

(Financial Times-UK) An Islamist militant who helped plan terrorist attacks on Jewish sites in Germany was given a relatively mild prison sentence on Wednesday because he had provided evidence on the inner workings of al-Qaeda. Shadi Abdallah, 27, a Palestinian of Jordanian origin, was sentenced to four years in prison by a Dusseldorf court. Abdallah admitted that Berlin's Jewish museum and a Jewish bar in Dusseldorf had been targets, and gave evidence against former colleagues. A member of the Sunni Palestinian al-Tawhid movement, Abdallah told of the military and explosives training he received in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, how al-Tawhid members in Germany had organized false passports for Islamic militants injured in Afghanistan, and how they gathered explosives and weapons for planned attacks.

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