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VIDEO: Tensions rise between Austria and Hungary September 25, 2015
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VIDEO: Reporter at Hajj: 'My aunt is missing' September 25, 2015
A BBC Hausa Service correspondent who was at the scene of a deadly stampede near Mecca, says she has lost her aunt, and some members of her group are missing.
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VIDEO: Why did an Israeli model want a no-fly zone? September 25, 2015
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VIDEO: Seattle: Students in fatal bus crash September 25, 2015
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VIDEO: 'I lost my son when dinghy was hit' September 24, 2015
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VIDEO: The rooftop cattle farmer celebrating Eid September 24, 2015
Azadur Rahaman, and his brother, herd cattle on the rooftop of the building the live, in Dhaka.
KARIM BOURTI
KARIM BOURTI
Karim Bourti was born in Algeria in 1967. Karim Bourti, a former French citizen and an Algerian citizen was arrested in France on 05/26/1998, in the weeks leading up to the summer 1998 Football World Cup finals in France. He was convicted, on 12/12/2000, of being associated with Omar Saiki’s group and sentenced to 3 years in jail. Before The 9/11, Karim Bourti, now living in France, had allegedly sent recruits to Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan via London. He was known for his custom to wear Afghan style closes.
There were evidence connecting Karim Bourti, and the people around him, to what judicial officials say were chemical weapons plots thwarted by arrests in the suburbs of Paris in 12/2002 (see – Ricin Plot) . Karim Bourti was charged with assault after beating a moderate Muslim cleric in an attempt to extort funds from him. According to French intelligence sources Karim Bourti was a senior GSPC facilitator in France.
There were evidence connecting Karim Bourti, and the people around him, to what judicial officials say were chemical weapons plots thwarted by arrests in the suburbs of Paris in 12/2002 (see – Ricin Plot) . Karim Bourti was charged with assault after beating a moderate Muslim cleric in an attempt to extort funds from him. According to French intelligence sources Karim Bourti was a senior GSPC facilitator in France.
Karim Bourti has claimed he recruited Brahim Yadel (see – French Teror 12.07) and Herve Djamal Loiseau, who was found frozen to death in the Afghan battleground of Tora Bora in late 2001.
Karim Bourti had been stripped of French citizenship in 2006.
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