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2023-09-16 Europe
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Belgian court hands out heavy sentences over Brussels terror attack
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 [IsraelTimes] Eight men given lengthy prison time over 2016 suicide kabooms at airport and metro that killed 32 people and were claimed by Islamic State.
A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, ending the country’s largest-ever criminal trial. The suicide kabooms on March 22, 2016 at Brussels’ main airport and on the metro system killed 32 people and were claimed by the Islamic State group.
Not sure who the eighth man is — the article names only seven. Named are Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, Osama Krayem, Bilal El Makhoukhi, Oussama Atar, Herve Bayingana Muhirwa, and Sofien Ayari. French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohammed Abrini — already sentenced to life in jail by La Belle France for a 2015 massacre in Gay Paree — were the highest-profile of six culprits found guilty of murder in July. Abrini, who was one of the designated bombers but decided not to blow himself up at the last moment, was given a 30-year jail term. The court ruled not to give Abdeslam an additional term after he was sentenced in Belgium to 20 years in 2018 over a shootout.
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The bombings — near the headquarters of both NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
and the EU — were part of a wave of attacks claimed by the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Europe. Hundreds of travelers and transport staff were maimed and, seven years on many victims, relatives and rescuers remain traumatized by the biggest peacetime attack in Belgium. Authorities later raised the official corpse count from the attacks to 35, after finding a link between the trauma suffered and the later deaths of three more people.
The trial, which started at the end of last year, was held under tight security at the converted former headquarters of the NATO military alliance.
Abdeslam, who turned 34 on Friday, was the sole surviving perpetrator of the 2015 Gay Paree attack that killed 130 people. He had fled to Brussels after taking part in the Gay Paree attacks and holed up for four months in an apartment hosting members of the local cell. He was arrested several days before the Brussels bombings took place, but the jury decided he was one of the co-authors of the attack. A Belgian court turned down a request from the convict to stay in the country to carry out his sentence and he should eventually return to La Belle France to serve it.
Abrini was found guilty of being in one of the teams of jacket wallahs who targeted Brussels’ airport and a metro station. He testified that he had decided at the last minute not to detonate his explosive at the airport — as did another defendant, Osama Krayem, a Swede of Syrian descent.
Krayem was handed a life sentence, along with Bilal El Makhoukhi and Oussama Atar.
Atar, a senior commander in the Islamic State group who headed the jihadist cell, was tried in absentia because he is presumed to have died in Syria in 2017.
Herve Bayingana Muhirwa, found guilty of "participating in the activities of a terrorist group," was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Tunisian Sofien Ayari, also convicted on that lesser charge, was like Abdeslam not handed additional jail time as the court said sentences in previous cases were sufficient.
The court ruled not to strip any of the convicts of their Belgian nationalities. 
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