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  • Jail sentences for French market bombing suspects sought

    11/21/2004 7:58:17 AM PST · by knighthawk · 1 replies · 180+ views
    The News International ^ | November 21 2004
    PARIS: A French state prosecutor on Friday requested jail sentences of up to 10 years for 10 suspected radical Islamist accused in a failed al Qaeda plot to bomb a popular Christmas market in Strasbourg. The prosecution alleges aides to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden devised the plot in 1999 in Afghanistan. Lawyers for three key suspects — Mohamed Bensakria, Slimane Khalfaoui and Yacine Akhnouche — have said their clients admitted having undergone military training in Afghanistan but denied plotting any attack. Prosecutor Christophe Teissier asked a Paris court to hand Bensakria and Khalfaoui 10-year sentences, the maximum possible...
  • 'Iraqis did have Scuds' (Brit correspondent admits she "self-censored" her reports)

    06/11/2003 4:00:27 PM PDT · by veronica · 29 replies · 154+ views
    The UK Guardian ^ | June 11, 2003 | Ciar Byrne
    Channel 4 News diplomatic correspondent Lindsey Hilsum has admitted that she "self-censored" her reports from Baghdad and did not tell viewers that Saddam Hussein's regime was hiding Scud missile launchers in residential areas, because she did not want to be thrown out of the city. Hilsum saw a missile launcher in a back street of Baghdad after losing her way when driving to the scene of the first marketplace bombing in the city, in which 14 people were killed. Although Channel 4 News was not censored by Saddam's secret police, the Mukhabarat, Hilsum decided not to report on what she...