From Europe News:
Berlin - A man alleged to have threatened Germany in 2009 by appearing, masked, in an al-Qaeda-style video hinting that the Munich Oktoberfest could be a terrorist target, went on trial in Berlin on Wednesday.
Defence lawyers argued, however, that the state would not be able to prove that the 26-year-old defendant was indeed Ayyub H, chief of the German Taliban Mujahedin, who threatened to harm his homeland in a 13-minute German-language video.
'Germany is at war,' the masked man in the video said, surrounded by guns and apparently speaking from Afghanistan. 'Your mission here against Islam makes a strike on Germany tempting for us mujahedin.'
The defendant, whose name was withheld under media privacy guidelines, declined to testify at the start of the trial, where he is accused of membership of a terrorist group.
Another Muslim, a 22-year-old Austrian, was arraigned with him. (...)
Man on trial in Germany over 2009 al-Qaeda video threats
Monsters and Critics 26 January 2012
Defence lawyers argued, however, that the state would not be able to prove that the 26-year-old defendant was indeed Ayyub H, chief of the German Taliban Mujahedin, who threatened to harm his homeland in a 13-minute German-language video.
'Germany is at war,' the masked man in the video said, surrounded by guns and apparently speaking from Afghanistan. 'Your mission here against Islam makes a strike on Germany tempting for us mujahedin.'
The defendant, whose name was withheld under media privacy guidelines, declined to testify at the start of the trial, where he is accused of membership of a terrorist group.
Another Muslim, a 22-year-old Austrian, was arraigned with him. (...)
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