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July 7Th People's Independent Inquiry Forum -> Christian Ganczarski July 7th People's Independent Inquiry Forum -> Christian Gancz... http://z13.invisionfree.com/julyseventh/index.php?s=c604c96e8... Please sign the J7 RELEASE THE EVIDENCE Petition · July 7th People's Independent Inquiry Forum · Help Search Members Portal Calendar Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register ) Resend Validation Email Welcome to the July 7th People's Independent Free Forums with no limits on posts or members. Inquiry Forum. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! Learn More · Register Now If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: Name: Password: Log in SSL Search: J7 Forum [z13] Search July 7th People's Independent Inquiry Forum->J7 Geopolitics Fora->Islamic Extremism & Converts to Islam Christian Ganczarski, "head of al Qaeda in Europe" Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic justthefacts Posted: Dec 8 2009, 02:21 AM QUOTE Christian Ganczarski, born 1966 in Gliwice, Silesia, Poland, is a German citizen of Polish ancestry who converted to Islam. He is one of the individuals who has been described as the head of "al Qaeda in Europe".[1] Ganczarski was captured when a plane he was travelling on Group: J7 Forum Team landed in France. Posts: 2,589 Member No.: 598 Joined: 5-July 07 Wikipedia 1 of 14 3.4.2014 15:52 July 7th People's Independent Inquiry Forum -> Christian Gancz... http://z13.invisionfree.com/julyseventh/index.php?s=c604c96e8... QUOTE Europe | 12.06.2003 French Allege Detained German Is Top Al Qaeda Leader Fourteen German tourists died in the April 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. French officials on Wednesday accused a German citizen of being a leading member of the al Qaeda terrorist network with ties to Osama bin Laden. The man is also suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing in Tunisia. Christian Ganczarski, a 36-year-old German citizen of Polish descent, was arrested on June 2 at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport. Although he has not yet been officially charged, French authorities appear convinced he is a high-ranking member of the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda. "(Intelligence) services know that he is a top leader of al Qaeda, in contact with Osama bin Laden himself, and has been in Afghanistan and Bosnia," French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told parliament. "This individual is a specialist in computers and in radio communication services." But according to the Reuters news agency, a judicial source close to the investigation contested the officials' account -- saying French prosecutors had no evidence of any close link between Ganczarski and bin Laden, founder of al Qaeda network. Authorities are now concentrating on Ganczarski’s possible role in the bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, last year that killed 21 tourists, including 14 Germans. Questioned and released German police questioned Ganczarski last year about the Djerba attack after it was established he had telephoned with one of the suicide bombers shortly before the attack. He was detained but then later released when no direct involvement in the incident could be found. Shortly thereafter he moved to Saudi Arabia. Although during his time in training camps in Afghanistan he was known as “Ibrahim the German,” Ganczarski is of Polish descent. Born in southern Poland in 1966, he later moved to Germany with his parents and became a naturalized citizen. He and his wife are converts to Islam. Trained as a locksmith, he eventually became know as a “computer expert” in extremist circles. Germany has been a focal point for investigations into al Qaeda terrorist activity ever since it was discovered that several of the key figures in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States had lived in Hamburg for years. Ganczarski is suspected of having contact with the Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq, a Hamburg resident who has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for supporting some of those involved in the attacks on New York and Washington. Ganczarski also reportedly knows another Moroccan extremist named Karim Mehdi, who was detained at Charles de Gaulle on June 1. Mehdi, who has lived in Germany for years, was allegedly plotting attacks on the island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean and against U.S. military bases in Germany. French authorities say he has alleged that Ganczarski also had a role in the planning of the attacks, though they never happened. Deutsche Welle QUOTE 02/05/2009 German's Terror Trial to Close Verdict Expected in Djerba Bombing Case 2 of 14 3.4.2014 15:52 July 7th People's Independent Inquiry Forum -> Christian Gancz... http://z13.invisionfree.com/julyseventh/index.php?s=c604c96e8... By Britta Sandberg and Holger Stark The Djerba bombing trial is drawing to a close at the end of this week in Paris. The sole German defendant claims he is innocent, but he is likely to be sentenced nonetheless on charges of being a member of al-Qaida. Christian Ganczarski is sitting in the front left-hand corner of a glass box with rectangular ventilation slits. Five armed gendarmes are standing behind him. The 42-year-old is wearing a gray suit jacket with a light green shirt, long sideburns and a neatly trimmed beard. He has made himself comfortable in this aquarium in the middle of the courtroom. Ganczarski sits on a wooden bench, with an assortment of materials he is using during his trial lined up next to him. They include a Koran in German translation, documents from the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation's (BKA's) investigation of him, files in a plastic shopping bag from a supermarket chain and a bottle of water. He's a combative defendant. He corrects the translators and holds up his original testimony in German, quotes from the Koran and accuses the judge of bias. A suspected confidant of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, he waves cheerfully to his former BKA interrogators. He has learned a few words of French, including "merci," "exactement" and "bonjour." But when he speaks German, Ganczarski still sounds like a soccer player from Germany's industrial Ruhr region. Less than seven years after the April 11, 2002 attack on the Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba, in which 21 people, including 14 Germans, were burned to death, Muslim convert Ganczarski is on trial in Paris. He stands accused of being one of the masterminds of the attack, of involvement in many murders and attempted murders, and of membership in the al-Qaida terrorist organization. The other defendants are the brother of the suicide bomber, who is believed to have helped prepare the attack, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The sheikh, who is suspected of having provided financial support for the Djerba attack and had several telephone conversations with the suicide bomber before the incident, is being tried in absentia. He is being held at Guantanamo. With Ganczarksi, a man alleged to have been an early member of al-Qaida, is standing trial. He is believed to have recruited fighters in the western German cities of Krefeld and Essen as long ago as 1991. For German criminal prosecutors, his career represents a string of failures that highlight how difficult it is to sentence someone like him. Born in the Polish city of Gliwice to strict Catholic parents, Ganczarski began his path to jihad in Mülheim an der Ruhr, a city in western Germany, in the early 1990s. His family had moved to Germany in 1976. Ten years later, Ganczarski converted to Islam and was married in a mosque in nearby Dortmund. In 1992, he received a scholarship for religious studies in Medina, Saudi Arabia. In mid-August 1999, Ganczarski traveled to a training camp in Afghanistan for the first time. He returned to Afghanistan five more times by the end of 2001, even going there a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. British witness Jack Roche, 55, a former al-Qaida activist, who testified by video conference in Paris, said that Ganczarski was permitted to sit next to Osama bin Laden and conversed with him for a long time in a dining room containing 200 people. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also knew Ganczarski, who is believed to have taken messages to bin Laden for him. During the Paris trial, Ganczarski has repeatedly dismissed the charges as nonsense. In his closing arguments in the case on Thursday, Ganczarski told the Paris court that he "never had knowledge of an attack" and that his trips to Afghanistan had nothing to do with any such planning. He said he neither supported the Djerba attack nor any similar ones. When asked in earlier testimony about a propaganda video that shows him on Jan. 8, 2001 sitting in the first row, together with about 100 armed fighters at al-Qaida's Tarnak Farm training camp, where bin Laden was speaking, he responded: "It was not a terrorist meeting, but an open-air prayer session. Don't you see the shoes people have removed and placed next to the prayer rugs?" When the judge asked him what he had to say about the fact that Mohammed Atta, one of the Sept.
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