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| Terrorists jailed over football international plot |
| 2003-11-19 |
| Four Islamic militants have been jailed for planning a terrorist attack at a packed Paris stadium in Paris during an international football match. Police arrested the men the day before the 2001 match at the Stade de France between France and Algeria in raids of their apartments in working-class suburbs. They moved in after intelligence agents bugged a phone call between one of the suspects and a member of an extremist Algerian movement. In the raid, police found bomb-making materials, pistols, bullets, a bullet-proof vest and a tract written by Osama bin Laden. A Paris court has jailed the men - three of them Algerians - for terms ranging from 30 months to six years. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #6 Actually, I think a SHORTER sentence should be in order. After all, how long does it take to put a bullet into these thugs' heads? Kill enough of them, and the rest will decide Jihad is just too hard a game to play. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-19 11:29:54 PM |
| #5 G Wiz, they save the longer sentences for hate speech. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-19 9:42:46 PM |
| #4 Known Bin Ladenists were preparing to attack a stadium, perhaps killing several thousand, and the max sentence they can come up with is six lousy years? France = doomed. |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-11-19 9:04:16 PM |
| #3 Especially if England's playing (sorry, Bulldog!). |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-11-19 8:04:51 PM |
| #2 I don't think the Islamists want to mess with sports fans. Zapping any stadium in the world would be ill-advized. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-19 8:00:26 PM |
| #1 Even a stopped clock. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-19 7:00:35 PM |