This Monday (15/10/2007) I have been following the trial before the correctional court of Brussels, 7 persons prosecuted for taking part in a chain of transmission of terrorists in Iraq. This is an issue that I know well because I had worked as a fixer for the New York Times to recount the journey Muriel Degauque , 38 year-old from Monceau-sur-Sambre, near Charleroi , a small Catholic uneventful converted to radical Islam and who will blow themselves up against a U.S. convoy in Baquba (Iraq) 09/11/05 possibly becoming the first Belgian suicide bomber. Today in Brussels, they are suspected members of the network routing attempters who are prosecuted to the documents dependent contents in 108 folders and 2 large blue boxes on the meticulous manner modus operandi of the Islamist recruiters.
Bilal Sough, main accused in this case and the only one in custody, refused to appear by filing a medical certificate stating that he can make commuting the prison of Saint-Gilles at the courthouse in which blindfolded and hooded head. Her lawyer said that such security conditions are not imposed in his case but that if his client refuses to appear tomorrow, it could withdraw causing a default conviction. Considered by the floor as the key man of terrorist recruitment network in Belgium, the lawyer sough Bilal said his client "absolutely denies any because all the facts is based on interpretations out of context. To borrow a words of Talleyrand: 'Give me four lines of conversations between a man and I will take'. My client respects religion, hate and radicalization he will explain why a series of conversations intercepted by police " says the lawyer of the principal accused.
The presiding judge was limited to reading for today for nearly four hours, a summary duties investigation conducted by the State Security, the police and magistrates essentially based on wiretaps, conversations via email and chat, instant messaging (MSN Messenger), analysis of bank accounts and travel abroad. The Belgian survey starts on 25 and 07.26.2005 with two reports from the State Security Nabil Karmun respectively (suspected of links with the Salafi Muslim Brotherhood) and the family Sough (Bilal Souhaieb, Qotob) whose father (Abid) was already known from the Belgian authorities for maintaining contact with services Libyan secret, Abid also be expelled from Belgium in 1992. The report then details the many mobile numbers, conversations, relationships, money transfers qu'entretient Bilal called the Sough with a series of characters which often appears to be the main supplier of fake documents and an intermediary to arrange the transfer of "brothers" and "sisters" from one area to another until their final departure to accomplish their "wedding in society."
Belgium, France, Italy, Kenya, Tunisia, Iraq, Turkey, Thailand, Algeria, the report read by the presiding judge shows how from Saint-Josse and Schaerbeek, using any means trivial, a small group of educated young people in Belgium and influenced the fundamentalist movement "taqfir" has succeeded in creating a recruitment and financing of international terrorism. The president also tells a coded language used by members of the network: "make her wedding " means "carry out an attack ", " happened to society" means " arrived in enemy territory" in this Islamist core promises "real life " and reward intermediaries in the chain by a pilgrimage to Mecca . The
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 11:30 (local time), Muriel Degauque is found dead in a suicide attack in Baquba, where she focused on three American convoys. At 24:28, having learned a few minutes earlier from an informant there, Bilal Sough phone Cruypenninck Pascal (aka Abdelghani) to tell him " nothing but good news . "It's our turn now ," he answered convert Belgian resident in Saint-Josse, who is preparing with Angelica, wife of Rwandan origin, religion, to "make like Miriam and her husband "that is to say, as Muriel Degauque (aka Miriam) and Issam Goris (aka Abu Abdul Rahman). This will be shot in the head two days later (10/11 / 05) in Iraq when he wore a jacket bristling with machine guns and explosives . Some press leaks prompted investigators to arrest all members of the network to prevent 11/30/2005 risk of flight abroad.
Most impressive in this folder is in my eyes use surveillance techniques through new communication technologies (GSM and Internet). MSN Messenger to Meetic via software recopying screens, Belgian investigators have obviously missed anything from the identification of key suspects, sometimes with the help of U.S. companies to decode encrypted files. Finally, the survey also shows the vulnerability identification systems on paper and ease of access to networks of falsification of documents internationally (particularly in Thailand and Ukraine). The next few days, speech will be the lawyers for defendants who can answer the indictments particularly long.
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