Al Qaida financing: “The avowals of Salafist ringleader El Makdissi”

The Djihadist ringleader of the Salafist trend, Abou Mohamed El Makdissi, whose real name is Issam Tahar El Barkadoui, was summoned by Jordanian justice for a court hearing characterized by flabbergasting declarations …

• Abou Mohamed El Makdissi expressed anger at his prolonged detention since 2004, arguing that he had committed no crime except for a free-wheeling statement he made to Qatari channel Al Jazeera during his brief 6-day release from jail.
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• He stressed that he had  been offered huge sums of money in exchange for a TV interview denouncing Djihadist Salafism but he flatly refused because of “personal convictions”, as he put it.
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• This 45-year old Salafist and Djihadist who is married with three children, had sent of one his son to Iraq to take part in the Djihad (holy war) in Iraq.
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• The lawyer of Abou El Makdissi met by Echorouk in Jordan said that the Jordanian justice accused his client of financing the Al Qaida terrorist organization, an accusation he firmly denies.