Posted on 06/02/2003 2:03:46 PM PDT by knighthawk
A Tunisian man arrested in March on suspicion of plotting Islamic extremist attacks has been implicated in a gold smuggling scam aimed at financing al Qaeda.
Ihsan Garnaoui, 32, was involved for two years in gold smuggling that earned profits of 3.7 million euro ($7.5 million), says the German news magazine Focus.
The gold had been bought in Dubai, melted down and impurities added to increase its weight, then re-sold in Germany.
Six men suspected of planning attacks in Germany were arrested in raids in Berlin on March 21.
All were later released except Garnaoui, accused "with other unknown persons of founding a terrorist organisation linked to an international network of violent Islamists".
They got away with this for two years?
Sometimes there's method to his madness...
Tunisian man arrested in March on suspicion of plotting Islamic extremist attacks has been implicated in a gold smuggling scam aimed at financing al Qaeda.
Ihsan Garnaoui, 32, was involved for two years in gold smuggling that earned profits of 3.7 million euro ($7.5 million), says the German news magazine Focus.
The gold had been bought in Dubai, melted down and impurities added to increase its weight, then re-sold in Germany.
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