It was unclear whether the man was suspected of posting the messages on the Web himself or of having circulated messages that already were online
Lucky for this guy he wasn’t in the U.S.!

BERLIN An Iraqi man suspected of spreading messages by Al Qaeda leaders on the Internet over the past year was arrested in Germany on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

The 36-year-old, who was identified only as Ibrahim R., was arrested near the western city of Osnabrueck, prosecutors said in a statement. His apartment was searched.

He was accused of spreading audio and video messages by leaders of Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda in Iraq on the Internet from his home “in several cases since Sept. 24, 2005″ - and “in doing so of having supported these groups in their terrorist activities and aims.”

The prosecutors said the messages were from Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and former al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad in June.

Prosecutors did not elaborate on the man’s alleged activities or say how he got the messages.

It was unclear whether the man was suspected of posting the messages on the Web himself or of having circulated messages that already were online, and there also was no word on whether he was believed to have acted alone.

Prosecutors gave no details of the contents of the messages.

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