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• CIA warns terrorists targeting German vote

  23 March 2009
  A CIA official on Monday warned that the US intelligence agency had received indications al Qaeda was planning to launch terrorist attacks in Germany with the aim of influencing the country’s general election this autumn. The anonymous official from the CIA told German news agency DDP that Washington’s intermediaries in Pakistan had supplied information on German Muslims plotting to return from training camps in northwestern Pakistan just a few weeks before the parliamentary election in September to prepare attacks on «high-ranking targets» in Germany.

• Sweden: Malmö man freed from terror financing charges

  17 March 2009
  A Malmo court acquitted the head of the al-Aqsa Foundation in Sweden on charges that Khaled al-Yousef used funds from the charity to support Hamas. «This is good. Now the work of sending money to children can continue,» said al-Yousef’s defense attorney Laue Traberg. Al-Yousef was charged with violating terror financing laws, with an alternative charge of violating sanctions laws.