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| Spanish court convicts 20 Muslim radicals |
| 2008-02-28 |
| A Spanish court on Wednesday convicted 20 Islamic radicals of belonging to a terrorist group, but acquitted them of planning to blow up the courthouse, judicial sources said. They said the sentences were to be announced later on Wednesday. Ten others accused were acquitted of all charges, the sources said. All 30 were charged with belonging to an Al Qaeda-inspired cell and of planning attacks in Spain. They were arrested in 2004, several months after the Madrid train bombings of March 11 that killed 191 people and which were claimed in the name of Al Qaeda by an Islamic cell. The prosecutors at the anti-terrorist court charged that the 30 radicals were planning an attack either on the National Audience, the Supreme Court, a Madrid metro station or the headquarters of SpainÂ’s opposition Popular Party. The prosecutors said the plot against the National Audience anti-terrorist court was the most advanced. They said the accused had planned to ram a lorry loaded with 500 kilogrammes of explosives into the building. The court ruled that this charge could not be proved. But it convicted 20 of the 30 defendants of setting up a terrorist network by recruiting Muslims in prison for jihad, the sources said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 To be sentenced to 20 hours of community service, picking up litter (except beer cans, of course?) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-02-28 07:02 |