TERRORISM FINANCE: GERMANY PROVIDES ADDITIONAL

C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 001238 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR IO/PSC ERIN CROW, EEB/TFS RACHEL FEDEWA, L/EEB TOM HEINEMANN, AND EUR/AGS E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/21/2017 TAGS: PTER KTFS EFIN ETTC EUN GM SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: GERMANY PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING OULD SLAHI (C) REF: A. BERLIN 1127 ¶B. STATE 75096 Classified By: Counselor for Global Affairs Donald R. Shemanski for Rea sons 1.4 (b),(d) and (e) ¶1. (C) Pursuant to reftels, MFA Desk Officer for International Counterterrorism Cooperation Holger Kraemer provided Global Affairs Officer with additional information June 19. ¶2. (C) Begin Text of informal Embassy translation of German non-paper. The Mauritanian national and former resident of Duisburg (note: a city near Dusseldorf, end note) Mohamedou OULD SLAHI (M.O.S.),born 31 December 1970 in Rosso, Mauritania, completed terrorist training courses in Afghanistan/Pakistan in the early 1990s. According to Karim MEHDI, he was recruited by M.O.S. for terrorist activities. Moroccan citizen MEHDI was convicted and sentenced to nine years on October 26, 2006 in France because of the planned attack on the island of La Reunion and his connection to the attacks of 9/11/2001 or of 4/11/2002 in Djerba, Tunisia. According to information provided by Christian GANCZARSKI, a friendship developed between him and M.O.S. On the occasion of Ganczarski's first trip to Afghanistan (Aug./Sept. 1999), which he undertook because his objective, stemming from his religious convictions, was to help the Taliban with Jihad, among other things he listed M.O.S. as a "Reference." On November 10, 2006 German citizen GANCZARSKI was charged in France with membership in al-Qaida, operational activities, and direct contacts with its leadership/functionaries. End Text of informal Embassy translation of German non-paper. KOENIG