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• Report: Berlin fears German being groomed as suicide bomber

  1 July 2008
  Police fear that a convert, Eric B, 20, is being groomed by Jihadists to become the first German suicide bomber, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. German police had lost track of B several weeks ago in the wilds in or near Afghanistan, where he was in training with Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek-origin terrorist group regarded as just as threatening as Arab-based al-Qaeda.

• Ten people arrested for financing group tied to al-Qaeda

  2 June 2008
  Agents from the French, German and Dutch anti- terrorism services on Friday arrested 10 Turkish nationals suspected of helping finance a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda. Eight of the suspects were arrested in France by members of French domestic intelligence service DST, French media reported.

• Defendants deny all charges in Austrian Islamist terror case

  2 April 2008
  Cultures clashed at Vienna’s provincial court on Monday, as judges heard Austria’s first-ever case of alleged Islamist terrorism and banned one defendant for refusing to remove her burka. Two defendants, Mohamed M. and Mona S., aged 22 and 21, face charges of membership in a terrorist organization, having allegedly planned bomb attacks in Austria during the upcoming European football tournament, on European politicians and producing an Islamist threat video distributed on the internet. Prosecutors accused Mohamed M. of membership of «al-Qaeda, or respectively other internationally active Islamist terrorist networks», spreading their terrorist ideology and goals in the German-speaking world.

• Austrian court adjourns Islamist threat video trial till March 12

  2 April 2008
  Court proceedings in the trial against the alleged producers of an al-Qaeda-promoting threat video, billed Austria’s first case of Islamist terrorism, were adjourned on Thursday until March 12. Two defendants, Mohamed M. and his wife Mona S., aged 22 and 21, face charges of membership in a terrorist organization, having allegedly planned bomb attacks in Austria during the upcoming European football tournament and against European politicians, and producing an Islamist threat video distributed on the internet.