She was the attorney for 'Carlos the Jackal', and also his fiancee: Here's an interview with her from Spain's 'RedVoltaire.net', translated into English.
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Posted on 12/16/2004 7:32:41 AM PST by alnitak
Ten suspected Islamic militants have been jailed in Paris for their part in a failed plot to blow up a Christmas market in Strasbourg in December 2000.
The suspects - all Algerian or French-Algerian - were sentenced to terms of up to 10 years.
The plot was discovered just days before it was allegedly due to be carried out on New Year's Eve.
One of the convicted men is said to have been an associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
Four others allegedly linked to the group have already been convicted of planning the attack. They were sentenced to between 10 and 12 years' imprisonment by a court in Frankfurt in March 2003.
The German court said the group had planned to blow up pressure cookers packed with explosives, a technique they allegedly learned in Afghan camps.
The target was the popular Strasbourg Christmas market set up around the city's cathedral, which was shown in a video with a voiceover by one of the four saying that the passers-by were the "enemies of God" and would burn in hell.
Logistical support
The 10 sentenced in Paris on Thursday were convicted of criminal association with a terrorist enterprise, which state prosecutor Christophe Tessier said had links to Islamic networks in Britain, Italy and Spain.
Last month, Mr Tessier said the bombing "was avoided by a hair".
The group's alleged leaders, Mohamed Bensakhria, 37 and Slimane Khalfaoui, 29, were given 10 years, and Mohamed Yacine Aknouche, 30, was given eight. Rabah Kadri, 37, who is in detention in the UK was given six years and was banned from entering French territory.
The six other suspects, given lesser terms, were alleged to have given logistical support to the plot by supplying false papers to other members of the group.
Khalfaoui's lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, said the convictions and sentences showed that French institutions, and French justice were "racist, anti-Arab and Islamophobic".
Say what?!?!?!?!?
I wonder if the French will start to "get it" now...
Strasbourg is a lovely town. I'm glad their Christmas market was left in peace.
I wonder why the Germans were involved. I guess the would-be-assassins were operating out of both countries.
~ and ~
Ummmm, no; no it's not. I won't go into *what it is*, as I'd probably get in trouble... aw, what the heck:
Islam, The Cult of Murder™.
Islam, The Cult of Terror™.
Islam, The Cult of Boy-Buggering™.
Islam, The Cult of Women-Chattelling™.
Islam, The Cult of Horror™.
Islam, The Cult of Rape™.
Islam, The Cult of Ritual Killing™.
Islam, The Cult of Beheading™.
Islam, The Cult of Deviants™.
Islam, The Cult of Hate™.
Islam, The Cult of Lies™.
Islam, The Cult of Female Mutilation™.
Islam, The Cult of Death™.
Islam, The Cult of Christian & Jew Killing™.
Islam, The Cult of Infidel Murder™.
Islam, The Cult of The Mentally-Ill™.
Islam, the Cult of Evil™.
Islam, the Cult of Poverty™.
Islam, the Cult of Illiteracy™.
Islam, the Religion of Peace™, and THEY'LL KILL YOU TO PROVE IT!
She was the attorney for 'Carlos the Jackal', and also his fiancee: Here's an interview with her from Spain's 'RedVoltaire.net', translated into English.
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
<<<<< Shudder >>>>>
"Not to mention that Islam came to save humanity from ignorance and oppression."
Okay, we'll be sure not to mention it because it's not true!
If you crave oppression and ignorance then Islam is for you!
Hillarious isn't it?
Of course! Perfectly logical.
It is blatantly racist, anti-Arab and islamophobic to deny radical moos the ability to blow up other people.
Sheeeesh!!
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