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Monday, August 14, 2017

Only in Germany

Today's exercise in the bizarre comes from the German city of Saarbrucken.  A Syrian refugee in that city was found guilty after a trial of attempting to defraud ISIS out of about $180,000.  The refugee told ISIS that he would use the money to buy explosives so as to carry out terror attacks in Germany.  The refugee was also charged with attempted terrorism, but the court acquitted him on those charges since it believed his story that he had no intention of ever carrying out any attack.

Think about that.  ISIS is recognized, even in Germany, as the worst (or at least one of the worst) terrorist groups in the world.  Nevertheless, the German authorities stepped in an prosecuted a Syrian refugee because he tried to get cash from ISIS under false pretenses.

This is the rough equivalent of some drug dealer suing in federal court because one of his customers had failed to pay for the drugs that he got.

It's amazing that a court would ever get involved in such a ridiculous situation. 

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