Posted on 01/24/2008 3:46:02 PM PST by knighthawk
The Hague - A Dutch appeal court in The Hague has acquitted seven men accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation known as the "Hofstad" group. The men were arrested in 2004 on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks in the Netherlands. The arrests took place shortly after the killing of filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
The appeal court ruled that the group was a network, but it did not have a common ideology with terrorist intent. The sentence of the main suspect Jason Walters, originally a US citizen, remains the same at 15 years. He threw a grenade at police shortly before they attempted to raid the apartment he was in. The sentence of a second man in the apartment, Ismaïl Akhnikh, was reduced from 13 years to 15 months and he was released.
The men regularly met at the house of Mohamed Bouyeri, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Theo van Gogh.
Ping
“What a joke.”
Hey, that brutal 15-month sentence will show these people that terrorism doesn’t pay!
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