Top German terrorism suspect arrested in Tanzania: police

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A top German terrorism suspect, who was being hunted by Kenyan police following a blast in the capital Nairobi last month, has been arrested in neighboring Tanzania, police said on Tuesday.
Kenyan police last month released a photo of a man they identified as Emrah Erdogan, a German national of Turkish origin who is also known as Salahuddin al-Kurdi. The Kenyan police said he had entered the east African country from Somalia in May.
According to political scientist Dirk Baehr and German media, Erdogan travelled to Waziristan in northwest Pakistan in early 2010 and joined a militant Islamist group.
He then went to Somalia in 2011 and was suspected of joining up with the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab.
"The German suspect is in police custody in Dar es Salaam in relation with terrorism investigations. He is being questioned by the police as we speak to get a written statement from him," a Tanzanian police source, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media, told Reuters.
Two more Tanzanian police sources, who also declined to be identified, confirmed the arrest. The Tanzania Police Force declined to give any official comment.
The ranks of al Shabaab include foreign fighters from Kenya, Europe, the Gulf, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Horn of Africa country has become an increasingly prominent arena in the U.S.-led war fight against militant Islam.
Kenyan police issued the photograph of Erdogan after a bomb tore through a trading centre in the heart of Nairobi on May 28, killing one person and wounding more than 30.
Kenya sent soldiers into Somalia in October to fight al Shabaab. Since then, there have been a string of grenade and bomb attacks in the capital Nairobi and the north of the country near the border with Somalia.
Earlier this month, the Ugandan police said they too were hunting for Erdogan and another German terrorism suspect as they believed they had sneaked across the border from Kenya.

Top German terrorism suspect arrested in Tanzania: police - Yahoo! News

I think terrorism would be the third Pan global activity after trade and sports.

 

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Does not look like german.. he is of turkish descent... another Jihadi threatening Europe.. not sure when will Europe become strict in immigration of jihadi background people

 

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A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver to seven and a half years in prison on Friday for attempting to financially support al Qaeda's operations in his homeland.
Raja Lahrasib Khan, 58, pleaded guilty in February 2012 to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Khan, who was born in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir but became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988, admitted that between the mid-2000s and 2009, he gave about $550 to Ilyas Kashmiri, a member of the Kashmir independence movement.
Although Khan wanted to finance attacks against India, which also claims the divided region and has fought several wars with Pakistan, prosecutors said Khan knew Kashmiri was working with al Qaeda, the group responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities and other acts of violence.
In 2010, an undercover law enforcement agent posing as someone interested in sending money to Kashmiri met several times with Khan.
The agent told Khan he was interested in giving money to Kashmiri - but only if Kashmiri was working with al Qaeda. The agent told Khan he was also interested in sending individuals into Pakistan to receive military training so they could conduct attacks against U.S. forces and interests.
Khan agreed to act as an intermediary and accepted $1,000 from the agent. He was arrested shortly after that.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Zagel sentenced Khan to 90 months in federal prison and to lifetime supervision after his release.
Before handing down the sentence, Zagel said Khan's decision to aid al Qaeda after voluntarily choosing to become a U.S. citizen was a "profoundly aggravating factor."

Chicago cabbie sentenced to prison for aiding al Qaeda - Yahoo! News

give donations and also go to jail.