10 on trial in Paris in jihadist financing ring with suspected al-Qaida tie
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Ten people have gone on trial in Paris for alleged links to the financing of a jihadist movement that the U.N. Security Council considers an affiliate of al-Qaida.
The trial beginning Monday comes four years after the suspects, mostly Turkish-speaking, were rounded up in a police sweep in France, Germany and the Netherlands. It is poised to bring to light a funding path for the global jihadist movement.
The defendants are suspected of collecting funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United Nations listed as an al-Qaida affiliate, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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They are also accused of ties to an Islamic militant sentenced for plotting to crash a plane into the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey.