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Report: Turkey jails seven caught in alleged plot to kill Bush
AOL News/AP ^ | 2007-01-26
Posted on 01/26/2007 9:54:13 AM PST by IrishMike
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - A Turkish court on Friday sentenced seven men caught in 2004 while allegedly planning to assassinate visiting U.S. President George W. Bush , CNN-Turk reported.
The seven were said to be members of the Ansar al-Islam radical Islamic group, which prosecutors said has ties to al-Qaida. They were caught in a raid before a June 2004 NATO Summit in Istanbul, which Bush attended.
The leader of the group, Alpaslan Toprak, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison, while the other six defendants each received six years and three months, CNN-Turk reported. They were among 20 suspects being tried in the city of Bursa for "membership in an armed organization."
The other 13 men were acquitted on Friday, CNN-Turk said.
In raids of the men's houses, police said they found explosives, remote controls to set them off, guns and rifles. The men admitted in court to plotting to kill the U.S. president with a suicide bomb attack, CNN-Turk said.
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