Mixed verdicts issued in Madrid terror trial

AP on MSNBC.com ^ | October 31, 2007

[rightwingintelligentsia]

A Spanish judge on Wednesday found 21 people guilty of involvement in Islamist bombings of Madrid trains on March 11, 2004, which killed 191 people. Seven of the accused were acquitted of any involvement in the bombings including Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, known as "Mohamed the Egyptian." He is in prison in Italy after being convicted of belonging to an international terrorist group. Moroccan Jamal Zougam was sentenced to a total of more than 40,000 years in prison, although under Spanish law he can only serve a maximum of 40 years. Spaniard Emilio Suarez Trashorras, found guilty of supplying explosives, also received a sentence of thousands of years in jail. Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez read out the verdicts in a hushed courtroom, with gun-toting police and bomb-sniffing dogs on guard outside. Most of the suspects are young Muslim men of North African origin accused of acting out of allegiance to al-Qaida to avenge the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, although Spanish investigators say they did so without a direct order or financing from Osama bin Laden's terror network.

[kipita]

It’s on every TV channel here in Spain.

[the scotsman]

Guilty Verdicts Over Madrid Train Bombs
Updated:13:00, Wednesday October 31, 2007

‘A Spanish judge has delivered guilty verdicts on some of the 28 people accused over the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800.

Madrid train bombings killed 191Those convicted include one of the alleged surviving ringleaders, Jamal Zougam.

Four people have been convicted of murder, among other offences. Three were sentenced to 30 years in prison for each of the 191 victims and 20 years each for each of the 1,800 injured.’

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