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Adem Yilmaz
 Adem Yilmaz was born in 1979 and is a Turkish national who grew up in Germany. He lived in Ulm and was a close friend and confidant of Fritz Martin Gelowicz, the presumed ringleader of the local Islamic Jihad Union –IJU terror cell, also known as the ‘Saarland Group’ (see also - Dr Yehia Yousif).
Since 07/2007 Adem Yilmaz and Fritz Martin Gelowicz were both under close surveillance preparing explosives and planning what became known as the Ramstein Plot.
On 09/04/2007, Adem Yilmaz was arrested as a suspect in the Ramstein Plot. According to the German security service BKA, Adem Yilmaz attended, in previous years, a training camp, run by the Islamic Jihad Union –IJU, in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
On 09/02/2008, Adem Yilmaz was charged, along with Fritz Martin Gelowicz, and Daniel Martin Schneider, with membership in a terrorist organization. If convicted, he faces a possible 10 years in prison. He was accused of being a member of the radical Islamic Jihad Union -IJU, an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan -IMU, a Jihadist group with origins in Central Asia.
The younger brother of Adem Yilmaz, Burhan Yilmaz, was arrested, on 10/22/2008, near Frankfurt on suspicion that he ferried money and equipment for an Afghanistan-based group, probably referring to the Islamic Jihad Union –IJU .
* Adem Yilmaz was convicted and sentenced, on 03/04/2010, to years in jail (see - Sentence 03.04.10).
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