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May 17, 2010 Special Dispatch No. 5009

GIMF Denies Connection to Individuals Arrested for Circulating Video Threatening Austria and Germany

May 17, 2010
Special Dispatch No. 5009

On September 21, 2007, the Islamist website ekhlaas.org, hosted by Layered Technologies Inc. in Texas, USA, posted a message by the commander of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), who goes by the alias Ahmad Al-Wathiq Billah Abu Yasin. The message was in response to September 12, 2007 reports in the international media stating that three individuals, a married couple and another man, had been arrested in Vienna in connection with a GIMF video threatening Germany and Austria for their involvement in Afghanistan. The reports stated further that a fourth man had been arrested in Canada on suspicion of connection with the GIMF and of involvement in an attempted bombing outside the country....

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