Berlin: German prosecutors said today they
had charged a Turkish-German citizen with suspected links to
one of four men currently on trial for allegedly plotting to
attack US targets in Germany.
The 24-year-old, named only as Kadir T, was charged on
November 20 with support of an "international terrorist
organisation" and violating export laws, federal prosecutors
said in a statement.
According to the charge sheet, T regularly attended
weekly meetings organised by Adem Yilmaz with the aim of
recruiting new members for the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an
extremist group with suspected links to Al-Qaeda.
Yilmaz and two others were arrested in September 2007
mixing chemicals to make the equivalent of 410 kg of
explosives -- 100 times the amount used in the 2005 London
bombings that killed more than 50 people.
A fourth man, Atilla Selek, was arrested soon after in
Turkey. The four, known as the Sauerland cell after the German
region where they were captured, are currently on trial in
Duesseldorf and could face 15 years in prison.
Kadir T, who has dual German and Turkish nationality,
has been in custody since August 26.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, December 09, 2009, 19:25