Pakistan sentenced five men, including a soldier, to hang for their involvement in an al Qaeda-inspired assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in late 2003, a military spokesman said on Friday."They were convicted in the assassination attempt on the president on Dec. 25, 2003," he told Reuters, referring to an attack in which suicide car bombers rammed Musharraf‘s motorcade killing 15 people. He declined to say where the trial was held but said, "the trial was held under relevant provisions of law and then they were given sentences."
Last week a soldier was hanged for his role in the first attack, in which the president‘s car passed over a bridge seconds before it was blown up.