Thursday, July 21, 2005
Accused Bin Laden money man walks
From Opinion Journal yet another report on the failure of current European law enforcement to contain terrorist operations:
Earlier this week, Germany's Constitutional Court set free Mamoun Darkazanli, a German national who is suspected of being Osama bin Laden's principal money man in Europe, on what amounted to a legalism regarding the constitutionality of a Spanish judge's extradition request.
That followed on last month's release of Mounir el Motassadeq, who had previously been convicted by a Hamburg court as an accomplice in the 9/11 attacks.
Here again, he owes his release mainly to legal niceties, which al Qaeda members are trained to manipulate.
