Posted by: NepaliCNN February 19, 2005
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"In the week after the March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid, Belgian police arrested four members of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which was linked to the Madrid bombings and the May 2003 Casablanca bombings."
"In October 2004, a Belgian court sentenced eight Islamic militants to prison terms of up to 5 years for plotting attacks and for links to Al Qaeda. According to prosecutors, three months before the Sept. 11 attacks, one of the men, Saber Mohammed, an Iraqi Kurd, received multiple phone calls from senior Al Qaeda figure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Also convicted was Tarek Maaroufi, who had been convicted in September 2003 of supplying the fake passports used in the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud."
"In Spain the Marxist/separatist Basque terrorists of the Euzkadi ta Azkatasuna (?Basque Homeland and Liberty?) ? infamously known as ETA Not surprisingly, ETA has had to move its logistical rear to friendlier areas? and none is friendlier than ?progressive? Belgium."
"The Government refused the Turkish Government's extradition request for Erdal because of the possibility that she could face the death penalty in Turkey. The Government also refused to try her on the terrorism charges in Belgium because of a technicality in the international agreement requiring such action. After a month-long hunger strike, Erdal was released from prison in August and placed under house arrest pending a trial"
"Resolution Endorsing and Supporting People?s War signatories:
1. Belgium - Workers? Party of Belgium
2. Brazil - Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos (Cebraspo)
3. Chad - Action Tchadienne pour l?Unit? et le Socialisme (ACTUS)
4. Mexico - Asesor?a Jur?dica Popular
5. Mexico - Maestros de Educaci?n Ind?gena Michoac?n
6. Mexico - Representante de los presos de Loxicha
7. Nepal - Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum
8. Philippines - National Democratic Front
9. Senegal - JDB/Le Prol?taire
10. USA - Ray O. Light Group"
Krishna Khatiwada of Peoples War & Baudouin Deckers of Workers party of Belgium are the signatories against Belgiums arms sell to Nepal.
"In Antwerp, Belgium, almost all of the 180 people in the crowd were Nepalese. During the slideshow, there was enthusiastic applause at the photo of Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). And another round of cheers went up for the first photos of People's Liberation Army guerrillas."
