[Al Ahram] A Gay Paree court Monday sentenced eight members of an Islamist bad turban group to prison, giving the Indian-born criminal mastermind Mohammed Niaz Abdul Raseed eight years.The group was accused of recruiting French citizens for training at bad turban camps in Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The suspects had been tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
and convicted for membership of a criminal gang and for plotting terror strikes.
Two Frenchies -- Charaf-Din Aberouz and Saad Rajraji -- were described as Raseed's "lieutenants" and sentenced to five years each.
Aberouz was arrested on January 25, 2011 along with Pak-born French national Zohab Ifzal at Pakistain's Lahore airport, where an Al-Qaeda operative was supposed to meet and take them to a training camp.
The shortest sentence was 18 months, for one of the eight who was still on the lam and sentenced in absentia.