Posted on 11/04/2001 4:13:53 AM PST by CommiesOut
| Germany reportedly investigates Stasi past of hijacker's uncle The Associated Press KARLSRUHE, Germany (November 3, 2001 1:32 p.m. EST) - German officials are investigating a connection between a relative of suspected terrorist Ziad Jarrah and the former East German secret police, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office said Saturday. "The circumstances are being pursued, but I cannot provide details," said Frauke Scheuten, spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Jarrah is suspected of flying the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday that Jarrah's great uncle, Assem Omar Jarrah, began working for the Stasi as an informant in 1985 after arriving in Griefswald from Lebanon two years earlier as a pharmacy student. According to Stasi files, which were made public after German reunification in 1990, the uncle was also an agent of the Libyan secret service. Der Spiegel reported that a handwritten notation on the back of the computer punch-card in Assem Omar Jarrah's Stasi file said he had contact with people who were involved in "Operation Trader" - a code-name used by the Stasi to describe a group of Palestinian terrorists active in the 1970s and 1980s. The group was run by Sabri Chalil al-Banna, who went by the alias Abu Nidal. After German reunification, Assem Omar Jarrah ran two medical and pharmaceutical supply firms, in Neubrandenburg and Griefswald. It was at the University of Griefswald that Ziad Jarrah studied German in 1996 before he moved to Hamburg, where investigators believe he joined a terrorist cell run by Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is not known what contact there was between Ziad Jarrah and his great uncle. Neither of Assem Omar Jarrah's companies are still listed in the trade register, and he told German officials he was immigrating back to Lebanon two months before the attacks on the United States, according to Spiegel. In other investigation developments in Germany, officials on Friday searched the Hamburg apartments of two men who were arrested in Pakistan at the beginning of October trying to cross into the country illegally from Afghanistan, Scheuten said. One of the men is German, and the other is a German resident. Scheuten would not say if the men are thought to be linked to the Sept. 11 attacks nor would she provide details of the search. |
I've been trying to figure out the connection between some German fanatics and the terrorists. This post indicates that there may be a connection, but I still haven't figured out why they may be working together.
Certain German groups and Middle Easterns kept popping up in the OKC bombing too.
Two suspected terrorist were in the comapny of a German woman when they were unloading incriminating evidence.
Stasi - and Erich Honneker - always had close ties to middle east terrorism. Some of the "muslim" fanatics are really as much communist as they're islamic, and they always also shared a hatred of Jews.
It's no coincidence that there's a resurgence of old-style nazism out of former East Germany.
It's no coincidence that there's a resurgence of old-style nazism out of former East Germany.
Thank you. I missed the "Hatred of Jews" connection. I guess because I don't normally think about hating a group. Although I am beginning to form a definite hatred of the extremist Moslems. And after recently researching Islam, I now see the moderate Moslems as belonging to a cult rather than a religion that deserves my respect. Like any cult, the moderates are afraid of leaving because of the other members of their cult.
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