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Fritz Martin Gelowicz
 Fritz Martin Gelowicz was born on 09/01/1979 in Munich, Bavaria’s capital in South Germany. In 1984 his parents moved to Ulm where there is an extensive Islamic community and an Islamic centre preaching the strict Wahhabism form of Islam, practiced in Saudi Arabia.
In mid 90s’, as a teenager, Fritz Martin Gelowicz converted to Islam calling himself "Abdullah" or "Feliz", became a follower of Dr Yehia Yousif and a friends of Turkish born Tolga Durbin, an “Islamic Jihad Union” -IJU operative, who was arrested in Pakistan on 06/10/2007 and handed over back to Germany on 08/15/2007.
German Intelligence officials say Fritz Martin Gelowicz’s path led him through Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan FATA region, probably South Waziristan, where –IJU has a training camp.
On 12/11/2004 police picked up Fritz Martin Gelowicz and a friend, Attila Selek, for setting a book on fire in front of a shop in Ulm. In the car the men were driving, investigators found "propaganda material", according to court documents, including a CD with information praising Global Jihad and Osama Bin Laden.
Soon after, an Iranian-born Kurd with German citizenship named Dana Boluri, told investigators that he met Fritz Martin Gelowicz and Attila Selek in Saudi Arabia. Fritz Martin Gelowicz appears to have travelled to Syria and studied Arabic in 2005, according to a certificate from a language school in Damascus included in investigators' files.
Fritz Martin Gelowicz would later take part in the surveillance of USA military barracks in Hanau and Ramstein air base that refocused investigators' attention on him in the months before his arrest, on 09/04/2007, suspected to be the ringleader of the Ramstein Plot. He is also suspected of recruiting to other German converts: Daniel Martin Schneider, and Eric Breininger to the “Islamic Jihad Union” –IJU.
Fritz Martin Gelowicz was officially charged for plotting a terror attack and belonging to a terror group, on Tuesday 09/02/2008.
* Fritz Martin Gelowicz was convicted and sentenced, on 03/04/2010, to 12 years in jail (see - Sentence 03.04.10). .
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26/10/2008 06:52:37
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