Ahmed Huber

Ahmed Huber (* 1927 in the canton of Fribourg, † 15 May, 2008 Muri bei Bern ) was a convert to Islam Swiss bank manager and journalist. German, Swiss and American authorities designated him as right-wing extremists as well as a "link between the global scene revisionists and Islamist anti-Semites ".

Life

Ahmed Huber was born as Albert Friedrich Armand Huber in a Protestant family. In the later 1950s he was active in the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and came through his support of the Algerian independence movement for the first time in contact with Islam. After he had studied in Geneva, a center of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic teachings, he traveled on the advice of former Egyptian ambassador to Switzerland Fathi al - Dhib to Egypt and joined in 1962 officially converted to Islam. He called himself henceforth Ahmad Abdallah Ramadan al - Swissri. Now he was a Sunni Muslim and has also turned to Federal Palace in Berne on the prayer rug facing Mecca.

Acquaintance with Nazis and Islamists

In Egypt, he made ​​the acquaintance of Mohammed Amin al- Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator and member of the SS and perpetrators of the Holocaust, 1965 expressed positive views about the Huber in an interview, and Johann von Leers, one of the most radical anti-Semitic publicists of the National Socialist German Reich, who had converted under the name Omar Amin von Leers to Islam and played a leading role as a propagandist for Gamal Abdel Nasser. After his return to Switzerland was Huber confidant of the lawyer and banker François Genoud, a Nazi sympathizer. In the 1970s and 1980s Huber intensified his contacts with right-wing extremists and Islamists, especially the Shiite regime of Ruhollah Khomeini. After he had known over the journalist Jürg Frischknecht and Fredi Lerch ostentatiously to his previously non-public connections to neo-Nazi circles, Huber was in 1994 expelled from the Social Democratic Party.

By 1981, Ahmed Huber worked full time as a Federal house editor for the Swiss service of the German news agency Depeschendienst in Bern, first under editorial director Wolfgang Kenntemich, then editorial director Urs C. Grassi. Later Huber worked for the publishing house Ringier AG.

Swiss Al- Taqwa Bank affair

At the same time Huber was involved in the construction of the Al Taqwa Bank ( " fear of God " ) in Lugano, Switzerland and was one of five members of its Executive Committee. Investors of the bank were, inter alia, members of the Kuwaiti royal family, the bin Laden family and the Qatar-based cleric Yusuf al -Qaradawi. In November 2001, the assets of the financial group were frozen under the direction of U.S. President George W. Bush as U.S. authorities accused Al Taqwa, Osama bin Laden and Al -Qaeda to support financially. Huber denied it, but had to concede to have met several times with Bin Laden supporters in Beirut. The investigation of Al Taqwa were discontinued in May 2005. Legal successor of Al Taqwa was the Swiss company Nada Management Corporation, in its Administrative Board Huber sat. 2006 was the Swiss Attorney lock all bank accounts of the company and browse through their offices.

Extreme right-wing activities

Since 1989, Huber worked next to a closer cooperation of right-wing extremists and Islamists against Israel and the United States (" Jew - nited States of America ," Huber said in an interview with CNN). In the United States he has performed, for example, as a lecturer at the Nation of Islam, at the European Congress of 2000, the Young National Democrats, he spoke on the topic "Islam and the New Right ." A planned for the March 2001 conference in Beirut under the title " Revisionism and Zionism " was banned by the Lebanese government.

Huber was also for many years known as Geschichtsrevisionist. In England, he took part in events organized by David Irving, 1996, he said in an interview with the South African Muslim radio station Radio 786 from the " Holocaust Hoax ". And in October 2002, he was a speaker at a conference organized by neo-Nazi demonstration against the Wehrmacht exhibition in Munich, whose motto was: "Against the historical lies of political ideologues - for the honor of our armed forces ."

International reactions

Huber was the only Swiss citizens on the list of suspected terrorist organizations and individuals in the U.S. Department of State as well as a list of the United States Department of the Treasury, which legalized the blocking of the property and transfer transactions since November 2001. In the terrorism lists of the UN Security Huber has also been listed since November 2001. Since May 2002, Huber was subject to restrictive measures in the European Community. Switzerland also implemented the UN sanctions.

Due to the so-called travel ban by the UN Security Council Committee, after which the UN member states were committed to the persons and entities listed to deny entry, Huber had " expect to be spediert at border controls abroad home," said Roland E. Vock by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs ( SECO). Huber himself confirmed in 2007 that he could not go to the USA, Canada, England and the Caribbean. Asked if he wanted to be removed from the list, Huber replied that he " an honor " consider to be on the list of " rulers ", the " overlay them with threats, aggression and neo-colonialism " the world.

Last years

The married with an Egyptian Huber, who was in the private dealings as friendly and charming, lived on a modest pension at his home in Muri, after the inheritance of his brother was unable to start due to the terrorist suspicion. The father of two sons and a passionate collector of images and Nazi memorabilia died there, a long time ailing, due to age on 15 May 2008.