Brigitte's Wife Supports Jihad

The Australian wife of jailed Terrorist Willie Brigitte emerged from a long-awaited Prison meeting with her husband to declare her support for Jihad.

"One man's Terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," said Melanie Brown, quoting a slogan adopted by many supporters of extreme Militant groups -- including al-Qaida.

"I may get into trouble saying that . . . but I have heard it a lot, and I agree with it.

"For Muslims, the Jihad is compulsory. It is the struggle . . . the struggle for Allah."

The former Australian soldier also told how her marriage to Brigitte in Sydney was arranged by mutual friends in the Fundamentalist Muslim community, because both were keen to wed as the faith decreed.

Brown said she confronted her husband in jail about aspects of his life he had never revealed to her, such as the two former wives and three children he left behind in France when he flew to Australia early last year.

"We did discuss those things. But it's all cool now," she said. "As far as I understand, he is not married to them now."

In her first interview since her life was abruptly and irrevocably changed by Brigitte's arrest in Sydney last October, Brown proclaimed her husband's innocence.

But in the next breath she revealed her strident support for "the Jihad", adding that acts of violence could be seen as part of such a struggle.

Brown, 26, who had earlier punched photographers as she arrived at the Fleury-Merogis Prison, was clearly more relaxed as she left.

She revealed that the meeting, for which she had waited four months and endured three days in a French Secret Service Prison cell, nearly didn't go ahead.

She said Brigitte had decided not to see her after reading reports on the internet inside the Prison that quoted her saying she was planning to divorce him. He agreed to meet her at the last minute after she sent a message reassuring him the reports were wrong.

"He has been very nervous and almost did not come to see me today, but I feel I have cleared all that up," she said. "I said 'Don't believe the rumours. I'm with you, I'm behind you'."

Brown, now a languages student at the University of Western Sydney, said the meeting was emotional but composed.

"Nobody cried. We don't do that," she said. "Of course you feel emotional. I have not seen him for a long time."

"It was hard to leave the jail. You obviously want more time. But I will keep in contact with him in Australia."

Brown was granted a 30-minute meeting with Brigitte in a small locked room known as a parlour. It was furnished with two chairs and a table.

Outside Prison, she explained that her marriage to Brigitte last May was a "simple signing of papers".

"He was looking to get married and so was I," she said. "The marriage was arranged. We didn't have a party. Some people have parties, but I didn't have time. I was studying at the time."

She said her parents had had difficulties with her conversion to Islam two years ago, but still supported her. "They are good, quiet people with quiet lives. They are not very Religious," she said.

Brigitte has been imPrisoned since October, when he was arrested and deported from Australia on suspicion of organising an al-Qaida-linked Terror cell in Sydney.

Brown flew to Paris 2 1/2 weeks ago to meet Brigitte "and reassure him that I support him".

She was arrested three days later on the orders of French Anti-Terror Magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the man who is heading the case against Brigitte.

Brown said while she was held by the French Secret Service she was interrogated in day and night shifts.

"They would wake me in the middle of the night to ask questions," she said.

"They would ask me questions and then an interpreter would rewrite the interview in the first person, as if I had made the statement, like 'I did this' and 'I did that'. "

Brown said she was fed mostly cold meals -- usually bread and cheese -- while the interrogators laid out the case against Brigitte.

They detailed aspects of his past, such as his former marriages.

"They wanted to get me to hate him," Brown said. "I played their game so that I could see Willie. I have now accomplished my mission in France."

She said she would return to Australia but planned another trip to France, depending on her financial situation and whether Brigitte remained in jail.

That is highly likely.

The Guadeloupe-born Militant has already confessed to attending al-Qaida-linked Terror camps in Pakistan.

France's long queue of Terrorists awaiting trial means his case is unlikely to be heard for at least two years.


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