NARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF REASONS FOR LISTING
QI.H.269.09. Bekkay harrach
Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 08.07.2009
Bekkay Harrach was listed on 27 May 2009 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 of resolution 1822 (2008) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf, or in support of” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01).
Additional information:
Bekkay Harrach left Germany in early 2007 to travel to an Al-Qaida training camp in the Afghan-Pakistani border region with the help of a person who has been charged by a German court with human trafficking for Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). Harrach became a member of Al‑Qaida, either at the training camp or prior to his travel.
In or before January 2009, Harrach provided the German narration for a video entitled “Das Rettungspaket für Deutschland” (The rescue package for Germany), which was produced by Al‑Qaida’s media agency As-Sahab, in this way disseminating Al-Qaida’s demands and message to the German people. This video, produced with Harrach’s assistance, was posted on the Al‑Fallujah website on 17 January 2009 and later appeared on several other Internet forums.
In the video, Harrach stated that German troops serving under a Security Council mandate in Afghanistan should expect to be attacked by Al-Qaida and the Taliban. He also stated that he and other fighters were not interested in a conflict with Germany, but that Germany would not be spared if it did not stay away from “evil”. From the context, it appears that he was referring to Germany’s role in countering international terrorism in general and to its contribution to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in particular.
In another German-language Internet release distributed via the Al-Qaida media office on 26 February 2009, entitled "Der Islam und die Finanzkrise" (Islam and the financial crisis), Harrach called for a complete overthrow of the constitutional democratic order in Germany along the lines propagated by Al-Qaeda.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001