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...court in France has convicted a German convert to radical Islam for his involvement in a 2002 suicide attack on a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 21 people. Christian Ganczarski was found guilty of complicity in the plot and sentenced to 18 years in prison. That was a shorter sentence than prosecutors had hoped for, but French justice officials say the case and its outcome is, nevertheless, a timely reminder to Washington that international cooperation to combat terrorism can succeed without recourse to phantom prisons, extra-legal trials, or morally questionable extraordinary renditions. President Barack Obama has said that...
...During the trial, French justice officials produced cell phone records that showed the suicide bomber, Nizar Nawar, had called Ganczarski shortly before the attack to receive a blessing - a benediction prosecutors say was the go-ahead sign for the strike. Nawar made a similar call to Pakistan to speak with al-Qaeda terror maestro Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, currently held in Guantanamo as the self-proclaimed architect of 9/11. (Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in absentia by France as the plotter of the Tunisian attack this spring...
...Ganczarski, 42, did not deny he'd made several visits to camps run by Afghan and Pakistani militant groups in the late 1990s - and was even filmed with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during one visit in January, 2000. But despite denying any involvement in the Tunisian attack - "an act I cannot support", he said - the court found Ganczarski guilty of complicity in the plot. Ganczarski is appealing the ruling. (See pictures of al-Qaeda...
...Friday, the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, which has deployed ships along the Somali coast to try to clamp down on piracy, said teams had boarded the Faina to provide food and medical help to the 20 crewmen on board. The captain died of a heart attack soon after the capture. "The U.S. Navy has remained within visual range of the ship and maintained a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week presence since it was captured," the 5th Fleet said...
...easily make the transition to counterterrorism, as U.S. commanders discovered in Iraq. Pakistan's generals have shown no enthusiasm for such a change, despite a massive infusion of U.S. military aid meant to make it happen. Much of that money has been stolen or spent to defend against an attack from India; little has reached the border with Afghanistan. Army chief Ashfaq Kayani has made some effort to take on the Taliban and other militant groups, but fitfully and with mixed results...