Germany-based foreign university students fight for al-Qaeda: report
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, Jan 26, IRNA
Germany-Terror-Al-Qaeda
A group of foreign university students, based in Germany, are apparently fighting with al-Qaeda against the US army in Iraq, the weekly Der Spiegel news magazine reported Saturday.
According to the paper, US soldiers have discovered and confiscated a list of foreign al-Qaeda recruits at a tent camp in Iraq which included the personal data of four people from the north German state of Lower-Saxony.
All four had reportedly volunteered for the al-Qaeda mission in Iraq.
Two of the men, 25-year-old Radwan Ibn Jussif N. and 30-year-old Siad B. disappeared last spring form their student dormitory in the northern city of Braunschweig.
Both Tunisian nationals studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
B. had lived for 10 years in Germany, while N. resided in Germany since 2003.
The personal background of the two other men on the list remains unclear.
According to the document which was found by US troops in Iraq, another Tunisian, Nidal al-K. told al-Qaeda that he was a doctor and volunteered to take part in a suicide mission.
It is uncertain whether al-K. is still alive.
German investigators are trying to determine who recruited the four men in Germany and established contact with the group which reportedly travelled via Turkey and Syria to the combat zone in Iraq.
German security and intelligence officials assume that around 80 volunteers from Germany have gone to Iraq since 2003, of which half of them has fought with al-Qaeda.
Meanwhile, German authorities are also probing a likely link between a Spanish terrorist cell and a Germany-based contact group.
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