Ahmed Huber

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Huber in 1986

Ahmed Huber (1927 – 15 May 2008) was a Swiss-German journalist and convert to

Al Qaeda's terrorist activities through the Al Taqwa Bank
of which he was one of five managers.

Early life and education

Albert Friedrich Armand Huber was born in Fribourg, Switzerland in 1927. Huber was raised in a staunchly Protestant family.[1]

Career

Huber was a member of the

Swiss Socialist Party and strongly supported Algerian independence during the Algerian War. Whilst covering the conflict as a journalist, he opened contact with rebel groups. Through this connection he became interested in Islam and embraced the religion.[1] He recited his first public Shahada in Geneva's Islamic Centre before making a more public declaration at Al-Azhar University in February 1962.[1]

Returning to Switzerland, he made contact with

Ayatollah Khomeini, he declared the Iranian leader to be the "living continuation of Adolf Hitler" as part of his attempts to link the European far right to radical Islamism.[3]

Having forged links with the Muslim Brotherhood, Huber became involved in the management of the Al Taqwa Bank in Switzerland.[1] In 2001, Huber was listed by United States intelligence as a funder of terrorism.[4]

Huber was a figure in Holocaust denial, provided funding to Jürgen Graf and Ahmed Rami and maintained close links with the Institute for Historical Review, involved in their ultimately failed attempt to host an international Holocaust Denial Conference in Lebanon in 2001.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Stephen E. Atkins, Holocaust Denial as an International Movement, ABC-CLIO, 2009, p. 133
  2. ^ Christina Schori Liang, Europe for the Europeans: The Foreign and Security Policy of the Populist Radical Right, Ashgate, 2013, p. 158
  3. ^ Steven Emerson, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, Simon and Schuster, 2003, p. 106
  4. ^ Edward F. Mickolus, Susan L. Simmons, The Terrorist List, ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 131

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