 
MILNET Brief Terror Cases Outside the U.S. November, 2007 (Updated 8/6/2008) |
MILNET Brief Terror Cases Outside the U.S. November, 2007 (Updated 8/6/2008) |
graphic which indicates the latest
updates to the data:| Accused |
Event Date |
Particulars |
Country
of Trial |
Status |
Fritz Gelowicz, Adem Yilmaz, Daniel Schneider |
8/2007 |
Arrests based on surveillance tapes, the suspects had discussed attacking a dance club in the West German city of Giessen, patterning their plan after a bombing in October 2002 that killed 202 people in Bali, Indonesia. Unique in the case is the fact that two are German citizens who converted to Islam. The men had visited terror training camps in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. Analysts here say they believe the plot was intended to influence German public opinion, in an attempt to force a withdrawal of the country's troops from the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Schneider will also face a charge of attempted murder. He is accused of seizing the pistol of a policeman during the arrest and trying to kill him, according to German police sources. | Germany |
Charged with various terrorist acts. |
Ishaq Kanmi, Abbas Iqbal, Ilyas Iqbal, possibly two others |
8/2008 |
Three involved in a plot to kill the British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair. Kanmi
is charged with soliciting murder, belonging or
professing to belong to Al Qaeda, inviting support for Al Qaeda, and
dissemination of terrorist publications. The Iqbal brothers are charged with possession
of an article suspected to be connected with an act of terrorism.
All three are thought to be associates with a web site that proclaims
to be associated with "Al Qaeda in Britain". |
U.K. |
Charged in City of Westminister Magistrates Court on 8/29/2008. |
Hammaad Munshi, Aabid Khan, Sultan Muhammad |
2007 |
Munshi is the grandson of Sheikh Yakub Munshi, president of the Islamic Research Institute of Great Britain. He was recruited into a group by xxx, and who together gathered documents violent jihad, practical information on making and using weapons and explosions, and one that urged assassinations. Prosecutor said Khan had links with proscribed terrorist organizations Jaishe-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba,helped radicalize jailed "wannabe suicide bomber" Mohammed Atif Siddique and also of causing a disturbance by telling fellow students he planned to become a suicide bomber. | U.K. |
Munshi convicted on
8/19/2008 of having in his possession a guide for making napalm, a
weapon of mass destruction, while Khan and Muhammad were convicted
of possessing documents useful to terrorists with Khan's conviction
being on three counts of the crime. Sentencing to occur on
8/19/2008. |
Abu Hamsa a.k.a. Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Mustafa Kamal Mustafa |
Known as the "Terror Cleric", has been accused of several conspiracies. The U.K. has been attempting to extradite him to the U.S. for trial. In August of 2008, the U.K. asked the European Union 's Court of Human Rights for a judgement on whether they could extradite the cleric to the U.S. since the U.S. has not ruled out life in prison and because he claims to be in poor health. He will stand trial in the U.S. on 11 charges, including conspiracy in connection with a 1998 kidnapping in Yemen and conspiring with others to establish an Islamic jihad, or holy war, training camp in rural Oregon in 1999. | U.S.? |
Awaiting Extradition |
|
| Farid Benyettou, Boubakeur el-Hakim, Nacer Mettai, Mohammed el-Ayouni three others |
2000-2007 |
Members of the "19th Arrondissement Network"
accused of recrutiting Muslim youth to join Al Qaeda in Iraq and
teaching principles of violent Jihad. All ten accused of "criminal
association with a terrorist enterprise" which could have meant a
maximum of ten years on that single count alone. Benyettou was charged
with providingweapons, training and travel through Syria to Iraq.
El-Hakim was known for recruiting broadcasts aimed at French youth in
Muslim districts in France. |
France |
7 defendants convicted on
various charges, none of which received anything close to the
maximum. Benyettou sentenced to six years, el-Hakim received
seven years. Mettai was sentenced to four years. Ayouni
received a sentence of four years as well. Two others received
four year sentences, but were released due to time served while waiting
for trial. |
| Viktor Bout |
Conspiracy to kill American, conspriacy to kill
U.S. officers or employees, conspiring to provide material support to a
designated foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to acquire and
use an anti-aircraft missile. The defendant was recorded in these
acts in Thailand where he was arrested earlier in 2008, however he has
been in the arms business for many years. His products included
surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and armor piercing rockets. The complaint against Bout was filed in the Southern District of New York. |
U.S. |
Sealed indictment revealed on May 7, 2008 |
|
| Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, Tanvir Hussain, Mohammed Gulzar, Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan, Waheed Zaman, Umar Islam. |
8/11/2006 |
European and North American authorities announced the plot to smuggle liquid explosives on board european airliners destined for the U.S. and Canada. The plot would have culminated in the planes exploding while over the oceans. Many of the plotters are British citizens of Pakistani origin. The eight arecharged with conspiracy to commit murder and with plotting to "commit an act of violence likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft." A lesser charge "creating public nuisance by releasing videos threatening suicide bomb attacks in the UK" is | U.K. |
The eight are standing trial in London in a trial that began on April 2, 2008. Assad Sarwar, Abdulla Ahmed and Tanvir Hussain, pled guilty to conspiracy to cause explosions and creating public nuisance by releasing videos threatening suicide bomb attacks in the UK. Umar Islam and Ibrahim Savant pled guilty to the nuisance charges. |
| 3 Unnamed Men |
9/4/2007 and 11/2007 |
In March of 2008, two men arrested in September were charged with preparing explosives
to be used in Denmark or abroad, a third was arrested in November and was charged with
urging the kidnapping of Danes abroad in order to force the Danish
government to release the other two. Six others arrested but were not charged. |
Denmark |
Trial date not yet set |
| 1 Unnamed Man |
12/25/2007 |
Arrested and found to have explosives in his
backpack outside a subway station in Istanbul. The man was
"carryng more than 3 kilograms (7 pounds) of plastic A-4 explosives..." - Haaretz.com |
Turkey |
Arrested |
| 5 held in Algerian Bombing Attack |
12/11/2007 |
According to the BBC, "The men are believed to be members of a support network for al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQLIM). The AQLIM has said it was behind bomb attacks on UN offices in Algeria on 11 December that killed nearly 40 people. Seventeen UN employees died in the bombings in the Algerian capital, Algiers. It was the deadliest attack on the UN since 2003, when 22 were killed by a bomb in Baghdad." | Algeria |
Arrested, preparing for Trial |
| Malika El Aroud, 13 others |
2007 |
The conspirators were plotting a jailbreak to free an al-Qaida prisoner convicted of planning to attack U.S. military personnel at Kleine Brogel. The prisoner, Nizar Trabelsi, a 37-year-old Tunisian sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003. The base targeted by Trabelsi was reported to house U.S. nuclear weapons. Security services in several European nations suspect Trabelsi, who trained with al-Qaida in Afghanistan, had links with extremists in Britain, France and elsewhere in Europe.. at Aroud is the Moroccan-born widow of one of the suicide bombers who killed Afghan anti-Taliban leader Ahmed Shah Massood two days before the Sept. 11, 2001. According to a Reuters report, she was convicted in June in Switzerland for "supporting a criminal organization by running Web sites that posted statements from al-Qaida- linked groups and showed executions. She received a six-month prison sentence suspended for three years, which would keep her from going to jail unless she commits another punishable offense during the time." | Belgium |
Arrested, preparing for trial A day later, all 14 were released due to insufficient evidence to hold them beyond 24 hours according to the Brussels court. |
| Moosa Inas, Ahmed Naseer, Mohamed Sobah, 13 others |
9/2007 |
Charged with "causing bodily harm with the intention of creating fear or terror". The three confessed
to planting and detonating the bomb in the capital Male's Sultan Park
where fortunately no one was killed. 3 others will face trial
this year while 10 have yet to be tried, waiting on their arrest on an
Interpol warrant. |
Maldives |
Inas, Naseer, and Sobah found guilty and sentenced to 15 years each on December 19, 2007 |
| Abdelkader
Ayachine, Wissam Lofti, and 4 Unnamed Defendants |
10/2007 |
6 indicted for using the Internet to recruit Islamic Militants to fight in Iraq's insurgency. The detainees include an Algerian man thought to have led the group and another man of Moroccan origin. The suspects were arrested Wednesday in the northern province of Burgos on October 24, 2007 and charged with inciting Jihad (holy war) through the Internet, and to have provided financial support to jailed Islamists. | Spain |
6 Indicted,
no trial date yet for 4, two (Ayachine and Lofti were convicted on
October 29, 2007 |
| Omar Nakcha 21 Unnamed Defendants |
10/2007 |
22 indicted for attempting to recruit insurgents to travel and fight in Iraq. Of the 22, 18 suspects were charged with belonging to a terrorist group and another four as suspected collaborators. One of those charged s Omar Nakcha, a Moroccan who also is accused of helping terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings escape from justice. Two of the suspects are accused of belonging to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, a network thought to be active in several European countries. | Spain |
Indicted,
no trial date yet |
| Tariq
Daour, Younis Tsouli, Waseem Mughal, 42 others |
6/2007 |
The
45 Doctors, Inciting Terrorism via Internet A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site. Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong "cyber-terrorist" gang. The three listed here at first pled innocent and then changed their pleas to guility. |
U.K. |
42 are awaiting Trial, while
three who admitted to inciting terrorism (Tsouli, Mughal, and al-Dour)
were sentenced
to on 7/6/2007 . Tsouli, sentenced to 10 years;
Mughal seven-and-a-half years and al-Dour
six-and-a-half years. |
| Said Mansour | 2007 |
Charged with inciting terrorism,
specifically distributing pamphlets. He was an associate of
radical
cleric Abu-Hamza al-Masri, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence
in Britain for inciting murder and racial hatred and also had ties to
the blind sheik Omar Abdelraham (a.k.a. Omar Abdel-Rahman) who is
serving time in a U.S. prison for the first attacks on the World Trade
Center in New York City. According to the article in the
Copenhagen
Post, Mansour was distributing "propaganda that encouraged radical Islamist groups to commit terror acts. Police accused Mansour of being in contact, for example, with the four young men from Glostrup, who were recently tried for planning a terror act in Denmark. During Mansour's trial, which began in September 2005, prosecuting attorney Lone Damgaard presented the court with hundreds of videotapes and CD-ROMs confiscated from the defendant's apartment which documented various terrorist acts and showed Americans being decapitated...convicted using a new anti-terrorism law enacted in 2002 which prohibits the promotion of terrorism on Danish soil." - Copenhagen Post, as found on Islam in Europe |
Denmark |
Sentenced
to three years and six months in April, 2007 |
| Parviz Khan, Basiru Gassama, Mhommed Irfan, Hamid Elasmar Zahoor Iqbal Amjad Mahmood |
A charity worker and three co-conspriators are
accused of sending funds and equipment to a Pakistani-Afghani terrorist
organization and to plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim
soldier and behead him (the plot did not come to fruition
fortunately). Iqbal, was alleged to have in his possession what
prosectutors called the Encyclopedia Jihad, a computer disk of info
useful to terrorists. Arrests occurred in Birmingham, U.K. in
January of 2007. |
U.K. |
Khan pled guilty
on 12/29/2008 to charges he sent funds and equipmetn to a terrorist
organization, and planning to kidnap a British Muslim soldier.
Gassama pled guilty of failing to disclose details of the plot , Irfan
and Elasmar pled guiilty to helping to supply the equipment. Two
others (Mahmood and Iqbal) pled innocent and their trials also began on
12/29/2008 |
|
| Jihad Hamad, Yusef Mohammed al-Hajj Dib, 3 others |
7/2006 |
Charged
with the failed attack on two trains in Germany which he said was
revenge for
cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed published in European
newspapers. A sixth member of the conspiracy, Saddam al-Hajj Dib
was killed in clashes between the Fatah al-Islam militant group and
security forces on May 21, 2007. |
Germany |
3 of the five defendants were acquitted, while
Hamad, was found guilty and given a 12 year sentence. Mohammed
Dib went on trial in December of 2007. |
| 18 unnamed defendants |
2005 |
The so called Toronto 18, are accussed of putting together a plot to kill "much greater" in scale than the London 2005 bombings that killed 52 people." According to the "factum" entered into court by the prosecution, the 18 "were attempting to secure a safe house to store weapons and practise military drills, and embarking on a mission to destroy the West – one they should be willing to die for. Details of the alleged plot, which also included storming Parliament Hill and beheading politicians, emerged in a factum filed by the Crown that described the case against the accused as "shocking and sensational." | Toronto, Canada |
Documents entered into evidence prior to trial beginning |
| Omar
Altimimi |
2006 |
Charged with money laundering. When the police seized his computer, they found files containing instructions on making bombs, detonators and explosives, and video clips of graphic executions of hostages in Iraq. Mr. Altimimi was also found to have links with terrorists in the Netherlands and with Junade Feroze, one of the men convicted last month in the plot to blow up targets in Britain and the United States. | U.K. |
Convicted in July of 2006 |
| Abdul Sherif, Siraj Ali, Muhedin Ali, Ismail Abdurahman, Wahbi Mohammed |
7/21/2005 |
Aides the conspirators in the failed bombing
wave in London, U.K. Sherif gave his brother, a passport
that he used to flee police in the U.K. All five men are charged
with providing safe houses, passports, clothing and food to the failed
bombers. |
U.K. |
Sentenced to between 7 and 17 years on 2/4/2008 |
| Mohammed Hamid, Atilla Ahmet, Kader Ahmed, Mohammed Al-Figari Kibley de Costa, Mhoammed Kyiracou, Yassin Mutegombwa, Abu Hamza, |
7/21/2005 |
Hamid was charged with working with Ahmed to
send recruits to Aghanistan and east Africa for grooming as terrorists,
boasting his name was Osama bin London". In September of
2007, Ahmed pled guilty to three charges of soliciting murder. The head
of anti-terrorism operations at Scotland Yard, Peter Clarke,
said in a statement that Hamid and Ahmet were "dangerous people, who
between them carried out the recruitment, grooming and terrorist
training of young men. "Hamid directed his recruits through
military exercises, teaching
them how to defend themselves against armed ambush. This was not
innocent activity taking place on a camping weekend," Clarke said. "Hamid's
links to men convicted of carrying out the 21/7 (July 21, 2005)
attempted bombings in London shows the depth of his involvement in
terrorism." Hamid was arrested in the company of the ring leader
of the failed 7/21 London bombing attempt, Muktar Said Ibrahim (see
below) |
U.K. |
Hamid was found guility on
February 26, 2008 in Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London.
Ahmet awaits sentencing for his guilty plea . Da Costga, Al-Figari, and
Kabder Ahmed were found guilty of
attending terrorist training camps in southern and northwest
England as well as other terrorist offenses. Kyiracou and Mutegombwa admitted to
attending a terrorist training camp in a hearing in a separate
court hearing One other man was cleared of providing and
receiving weapons training.. Mohammed "Osama bin London" Hamid was sentenced to 7-1/2 years. |
| Muktah
Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed, Hussein Osman, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Adel Yahya |
7/21/2005 |
7/21
Attacks on London's Transport System Charged with conspiracy to murder in plotting the failed July 15, 2005 attack on London's transport system using bombs carried in rucksacks. Asiedu was charged with conspiring to cause explosions. Prosecutors said Asiedu lost his nerve and dumped a backpack containing his device in a London park. Yahya was charged with collecting information likely to be useful to terrorists. |
U.K. |
Ibrahim, Omar, Mohammed, and
Osman were sentenced to 40 years. During the trial,
Ibrahim turned state's witness and testified against the others.
After a hung jury was unable to convict Asiedu, he changed his plea to
guilty on 11/16/2007 was
sentenced to 33 years. On 11/19/2007, Yahya was sentenced
to 6 years and nine months after pleading guilty after his hung
jury trail. |
| Mohammed
Shakil, Sadeer Saleem, Waheed Ali, Abd al-Hadi Rachid Rauf |
7/7/2005 |
Charged
in connection with the
suicide attacks on London's
transport system on July 7, 2005...charged under the Explosive
Substances Act (1883) for
"unlawfully and maliciously" plotting with the suicide bombers "to
cause
explosions on the Transport for London system and / or tourist
attractions
in London". The alleged mastermind of the plot, Abd al-Hadi met
Mohammad Sidique
Khan and Shehzad Tanweer in the U.K. where they began to hatch the 7/7
plot. Abd Al-Hadi is in Gauntanimo after being captured as he
attempted to enter Iraq from Iran, and is a former Major in Saddam
Hussein's Army. Al-Hadi is also linked to Rachid Rauf, who was
jailed in Pakistan in charges related to the 7/7 plot. On
December 16, 2007, Rauf escaped whle being processed in a Pakistani
court after an initial extradition hearing (British are asking for him
to be exradited to the U.K.), causing a manhunt to ensue. |
U.K. |
Awaiting Trial |
| Omar
Khyam, Anthony Garcia, Waheed Mahmood, Salahuddin Amin, Jawad Akbar |
7/2005 |
Accused of plans to target a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network with a giant fertiliser bomb. | U.K. |
Sentenced to life
in April of 2007 |
| Moez Garsallaoui, Malika al-Aroud |
2005 |
Charged with running websites to support Al-Qaeda linked groups and publicly incite criminal acts and racial violence | Switzerland |
Garsallaoui
sentenced to six months in prison, plus a
further suspended sentence of 18 months. Al-Aroud received a six month
suspended prison sentence. |
| Rabei Osman Sayed
Ahmed (a.k.a. "The Egyptian","Mohammed The Egyptian") xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
3/11/2004 |
Madrid
railway
bombings Ahmed was charged with being the mastermind and the man who setup the bombings which killed 191 people and wounded 2,000 in Madrid, Spain. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
Italy |
Convicted of
subversive conspiracy with the aim of international terrorism under a
new post 9-11 law on 11/6/2007, sentenced to 10 years on 11/7/2007. May
be extradited to Spain for further trial xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| El Gitanillo (the little gypsy) (nickname, subject is a minor) | 3/11/2004 |
Pled guilty to handling explosives used in the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombing attacks...helped transport explosives used in the coordinated bombing of four commuter trains at three Madrid train stations. | Spain | Sentenced to six years in youth detention |
| Jamal
Zougam, Emilio Suarez Trashorras, Osman Gnaoui, Youssef Belhadj, Hassan el Haski, Abdulmajid Bouchar, Rafa Zouhier, Rabei Osman |
3/11/2004 | Three lead defendants are Jamal Zougam, Emilio Suarez Trashorras, and Osman Gnaoui in the Madrid train bombing case. Zougam, a Moroccan was charged with placing at least one of placing at least one bomb on one of the trains. Trashorras, a Spaniard, is charged with supplying the explosives. Gnaoui, a Moroccan, is accused of being a right-hand man of the plot's operational chief. | Spain |
10/31/2007: Zougam, Trashorras,
Gnaoui sentenced to
the maximum of 40 years, while Belhadj and Zouhier will serve
between 10 to 18 years. Rabei
Osman, an Egyptian accused of helping orchestrate the
attacks, was acquitted in the Spanish court but is serving a 10 yr
sentence in Italy for the same crime. |
| Mohammed
Bouyeri 9 others |
2004 |
Hofstand
Group and Van Gogh murder. Bouyeri accused with the murder of Theo Van Gogh and attempted murder of several police officers and two civilians wounded in the shootout and the illegal possession of firearms. Also faces charges of beinga key member of the Hofstad group which was planning attacks against Dutch politicians." He would now be tried along with other alleged Hofstad members. Twelve other cases of suspected members of the Hofstad Network are currently being reviewed and are expected to go to trial in the near future. All went to trial in the spring of 2006 |
Netherlands |
Bouyeri sentenced to life in
prison for the murder in July of 2005. The other 9 members of the
Hofstad group were convicted and sentenced with sentences for up to 10
years in March of 2006. |
| Ali
Berzengi, Ferman Abdull |
2004-2005 |
Two Iraqi men were charged with
collecting money at mosques to fund attacks in Iraq by militant group
Ansar al-Islam, collecting over $148,000 |
Sweden |
One man received a sentence
of seven, the other six years. |
| Abderrahmane Tahiri , a.k.a. Mohamed Achraf plus 29 others |
2004 |
The accused were arrested as part of a wide
conspiracy to attack Spain's National Court which also the home of the
country's anti-terrorist group. Ten were accused with collaborating
with the main operators in the conspiracy. The plot centered onan
attempt to ram a truck loaded with 500 kilograms, or 1,100 pounds,
of explosives into the National Court in downtown Madrid.
Prosecutors said the blast could have killed 1,000 or more. 20 of
the men had created Jihadist terror cells in prison, where many were
already serving time. Much of the evidence was based upon
testimony from a Morrocan man acting on behalf of the police, as well
as wiretaps and intercepted correspondence. |
Spain |
Ten were freed
on 02/04/2008 with the probability (speculation) that they had already
served more than half the possible maximum sentences. These ten were
accussed of collaborating rather than the operations. On February 27, 2008 Tahiri was sentenced to 15 years for Islamic Terrorist Activity,
but found not guilty of conspriacy to destroy the court building.
Twenty other men were similarly found guilty on the lesser charge and
not guilty on the conspriracy charge. According to the CNN
article, "Eighteen of the defendants were convicted of belonging to a
terrorist
group and two others were convicted of collaborating with a terrorist
group. In addition, two of the men were found guilty of an additional
charge of document forgery, the sentence said. Their sentences
range from seven to 14 years." -CNN |
| Kamel Bourgass, Mohammed Meguerba |
2003 |
The prosecution claimed the two
worked together in London to produce the poison ricin (a very deadly
poison in even the smallest quantities). Meguerba was arrested on
terrorist funding charges, skipped bail, and then fled to
Algeria. Meanwhile Bourgass killed a policeman during an arrest
for theft. |
U.K. |
Bourgass was sentenced to 17
years in April of 2005 for the murder of the policeman. Meguerba
is being held for trial in
Algeria. A Times of U.K. article
claims his trail has been adjourned indefinitely |
| Mohammed Atif Siddique | 3/2003-4/2003 |
Found to be possessing terrorism-related items including videos of weapons use and bomb-making. Charged with collecting terrorist-related information, setting up websites showing how to make and use weapons and explosives, and circulating inflammatory terrorist publications. | U.K. |
Delivering sentence, judge Lord
Carloway told Siddique:
"You told fellow college students that you intended to become a
terrorist and one of your targets would be central Glasgow." Sentenced
to 8 years. |
| 8 plus a ninth later, all unnamed. |
05/16/2003 | Suspected of
belonging to a France-based cell of
the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), which carried out
the attacks in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in which
45 people were killed. Prosecutors said the accused raised money,
provided housing and
forged documents for the group and met some of the suicide bombers
who perished in the attacks. The accused admitted visiting
Islamist training camps in
Pakistan and Afghanistan where they are accused of having undergone
weapons and explosives training. The GICM is linked to the
terrorists who conducted the Madrid Train Bombings in March of 2004. |
France |
8 from Turkish, Moroccan and French
nationality were convicted. Found guilty of associating
with criminals
engaged in a terrorist undertaking and handed sentences ranging
from a year's suspended jail sentence to 10 years in prison. A ninth was also convicted later. On April 8, 2007 it was reported the nine had "tunneled their way out" of a Morrocan prison, while some of the 1400 convicted Morrocan terrorists in various prisons went on a hunger strike to protest conditions. |
| Ten unnamed individuals |
2003 |
Charged ten individuals for their support of attacks in Madrid, Span and Casablanca, belonged to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group | Belgium |
In 2006, Belgium courts convicted three men for their support of attacks in Madrid and Casablanca, some eight others on lessers charges, two were acquitted. |
| Lokman Amin Mohammed | 2003 |
Kurdish immigrant charged with
smuggling fighters between Europe and Iraq for the Ansar al-Islam
network, the first time a person has been found guilty under a new
German law that makes it illegal to belong to a foreign terrorist group. He confessed to helping eight would-be suicide bombers and fighters travel from Europe to Iraq in 2003. Investigators said he ran a sophisticated smuggling network that also brought fighters wounded in Iraq back into Europe to receive medical treatment, including an expert Ansar bombmaker who lost both his hands in an explosives accident. |
Germany |
Sentenced to seven years in prison in Munich |
| Muhammad
Rafik, Kamel Hamraoui, Najib Rouass, 1 other |
2003 |
Rakik, A Morroccan,
Hamraoui a Tunisian, were charged with belonging to an extremist cell
alleged to have planned attacks in Italy, including one against the
Milan subway. Najib Rouass, a Tunisian, was charged with the lesser inciting violence. |
Italy |
Rafik sentenced to four years
and eight
months Hamraoui sentenced to three years and
four months, Rouass, sentenced to one year and two months. The
fourth was acquitted. |
| Mohamed Daki | 2003 |
Accussed of having links with an
extremist group based in northern Iraq, Ansar al-Islam,
which officials say is connected to Al-Qaida. The group is believed to
recruit foreign fighters to battle U.S.-led coalition forces and has
staged suicide attacks in Iraq. Originally his conviction along
with two others was overturned by a panel which said they were gurilla
fighters, not terrorists. |
Italy |
Appeals court convicted Daki
again on October 22, 2007, however he remains in Morrocco. |
| Willy
Brigitte, Sajid Mir |
10/2003 |
Brigette charged with association with "criminals engaged in a terrorist enterprise", and must serve at least six years of his sentence. | France |
Mir entenced to ten years in jail, Brigette nine. Mir however is not in French hands and has yet to begin serving his sentence. |
| Nizar
Trabelsi, Amor Sliti, Abdelcrim el-Haddouti, 20 others |
10/2003 |
Nizar Trabelsi of Tunisia, who played professional soccer in Germany, was charged along with 23 others with plotting to bomb a Belgian air base used by NATO. The plan was todrive a car bomb into the canteen of Kleine Brogel Air Base, a Belgian military post that is used by NATO and is the home to a United States Air Force munitions support squadron. Mr. Trabelsi testified that he intended kill American soldiers. | Belgium |
Trabelsi received the
maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The court convicted 17 other
men and acquitted 5 others in the largest terrorism trial ever in
Belgium. Sliti and el-Haddouti both received 5 year sentences. |
| Mohamed Abu Dhess, Ismail Shalabi, Aschraf al-Dagma, Djamel Moustfa |
2002 |
Jordanian defendants Mohamed Abu
Dhess and Ismail Shalabi and
Palestinian Aschraf al-Dagma are accused of belonging to a terrorist
cell and Djamel Moustfa, an Algerian, is accused of providing support
to the terrorist cell. The cell was said to be planning attacks
on Jewish interests in Germany and had ties to Al-Qaeda's Al-Zarqawi. |
Germany |
Mohamed Abu Dhess, Ismail
Shalabi and Aschraf al-Dagma were sentenced
to between six and eight
years, Djamel Moustfa was sentenced to five years. |
| David Hicks |
September 2001 |
Accused of undertaking support for terrorists...specifically Osama bin
Laden. His lawyer acknowleged that Hicks had been an al-Qaeda operative
for at least two weeks in Afghanistan after September 11...in the
trenches in Afghanistan's Kandahar airport and ordered to guard a tank
in a village behind the city. He also accepted that Hicks attempted to
reach the front lines and train others in the Jihad. Hicks' letters
home describe himself as ""a practising Muslim with military
experience" who could help in conflicts where "Christians and Jews
are fighting Muslims in Eritrea and the same in Nigeria". The federal magistrate said "Hicks had
undertaken four al-Qaeda training courses which taught him guerilla
tactics and mountain warfare including advanced weaponry, suburban
warfare and advanced surveillance. The training made him a valuable
terrorist resource and because of this, the community and Hicks
required protection." - The AGE |
Australia |
After serving six months in Yatala Labour Prison's On December 22, Hicks' lawyer said he had agreed to
a 12 month control order which allows Hicks to leave the high security
Yatala Labour Prison. In the control order, Hicks is prohibited
from leaving Australia, has a curfew, and "He must not communicate with known terrorists and is banned from
owning or communicating information about weapons, explosives,
combat skills and military tactics. He is also banned from having
firearms, ammunition or explosive devices." Hicks was released from prison under the control order on December 29, 2007. |
| Merouane
Benhamed, Menad Benchellali, Said Arif and Nourredine Merabet, 21 others |
2001-2002 |
Accussed of being the
ringleaders of a group plotting to gas the Eiffel Tower.
Prosecuters charged that some form of gas attack, possibly using ricin,
was contemplated
and that targets included the Eiffel Tower, the commercial centre at
Les Halles in central Paris and the Russian embassy in Paris. The court, in its delayed judgement yesterday, gave tough sentences to four people accused of being the ringleaders of the group. Merouane Benhamed and Menad Benchellali were convicted of "association with terrorists".Benhamed, 33, was accused of being the "orchestra director" and "promoter" of the plot. Benchellali, 32, was accused of "manipulating chemicals". |
France |
Merouane
Benhamed and Menad Benchellali, sentenced to 10 years. Said Arif and Nourredine Merabet sentenced to 9 years. Two of the other 21 charged were acquitted and the remaining 19 were given much shorter sentences. |
| Mounir el-Motassadeq | 2001 |
In 2005, the court, in Hamburg, found Mr. Motassadeq, 32, guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization — a lesser crime — and sentenced him to seven years in jail. But in November 2006, an appeals court overturned that ruling, saying he had played a direct role in plotting the hijackings and resentencing was scheduled. | Germany |
January 8,
2007, new sentencing hearing sentenced him to 15 years in prison for
being an accessory in the murders of 246 people aboard the commercial
planes used in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the U.S.. A later
appeal to vacate
the 15 year sentence was rejected. |
| Djamel
Beghal, Kamel Daoudi, Nizar Trabelsi |
2001 |
Plot for a suicide bombing against the U.S. Embassy in Paris in the weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States | France |
Convicted of
criminal association relating to a terrorist
enterprise, a broad charge that carries a maximum 10-year prison term. Djamel Beghal, 39, whom prosecutors called the ringleader, received the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison Four others received terms ranging from one to six years. Kamel Daoudi, a communications specialist received a nine year sentence. Trabelsi was sentenced in a separate trial in Belgium in 2003. The court in Belgium sentenced Trabelsi to 10 years in prison after he confessed to a the plot to drive a car packed with explosives into a Belgian air base where U.S. nuclear missiles were believed to be stored. |
| Saajid
Badat, Nizar Trabelsi, Ghulam Rama, Hakim Mokhfi, Hassan El Cheguer, Richard Reid |
2001 |
Conspired with the "shoe bomber"
Richard Reid. Badat was accused of planning his own second shoe
bombing. and pled guilty to conspiring to place a device on an aircraft
in service. The others (Rama, Mokhfi, and Cheguer) went on trial
in France for conspiracy to blow up an airliner in service. |
U.K. |
Badat was convicted and sentenced to
13 years in the U.K., Reid was convicted in the U.S. and sentenced
to life. Trabelsi is serving a sentence
from terrorist charges of planning to drive a car bomb into a military
base in Belgium. Rama was sentenced
to 5 years, Mokhfi and Cheguer each received
4 years. |
| Baghdad
Meziane, Brahim Benmerzouga, Kamel Daoudi, Djamel Beghal |
1999-2001 |
Accused of raising cash and equipment for al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups. Meziane is accused of directing al-Qaeda operations, inciting an act of terrorism overseas and financing terrorism. Benmerzouga is also charged with al-Qaeda membership, helping finance operations and possessing racially inflammatory videos. | France |
Meziane and Benmerzouga were
convicted and sentenced
to 11 years. Daoudi and Beghal were taken into custody
in France and then later convicted and sentenced to 10 years there (see
Daoudi, Beghal, and Trabelsi above). |
| Slimane
Khalfaoui, Yacine Akhnouche, Rabah Kadri, Mohamed Bensakria, 6 others |
2000 |
Accused in a plot to blow up a crowded Christmas market in Strasbourg on New Year's Eve 2000 - a bombing that a prosecutor said was avoided "by a hair" and could have triggered the first bloodbath of the new millennium. Charges included criminal association with a terrorist enterprise that had links to Islamic networks in Britain, Italy and Spain. | France |
All sentenced to prison terms of
one to 10 years. Also tried in Germany in March 2003 and received prison terms ranging from 10 to 12 years there. Kadri remains in a British prison and received a sentence of 6 years and will likely be extradited when his current sentence in Britain is complete. Akhnouche received an eight-year sentence. Khalfaoui and Bensakria received maximum 10-year sentences |
| Karim
Said Atmani, Fateh Kamel, Adel Boumezbeur, Mustapha Labsi |
2000 |
Accused of being part of the
group living with millenium bomber Ressam in Canada. Extradited
to France from Bosnia where he had fled. Linked to and outed by
Millennium bomber Ressam who tried to enter the U.S. across the Canadia
border. "Fateh Kamel, a Montreal businessman; veteran of both the Afghanistan and Bosnian Jihads was believed to be one of the main coordinators of support networks, providing forged documents for the Algerian GIA as well as a number of Salafi Jihadists based in Canada and Europe. " - Jamestown Foundation 1 (A Must Read!!!) |
France |
Atmani and Kamel convicted,
served some portion
of their sentences, and returned (Atmani to
Bosnia
and Kamel
to Montreal, Canada). |
| Dihen Barot, Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, Abdul Aziz Jalil, Omar Abdul Rehman, Junade Feroze, Zia ul Haq, Qaisar Shaffi, Nadeem Tarmohammed |
1998-2004 | Accused
in the U.S. of a plot to blow up various sites in the U.K. and U.S.,
with trips to both countries collecting intelligence on their targets.
Trail was set in the U.K. |
U.K. |
In the U.K: Barot was sentenced to life (40 years), sentenced reduced on appeal to 30 years. Bhatti and Tarohammed got 20 years, Jalil 22 years, Haq 18 years, Rahman and Shaffi got 15 years. |
| Frans van Anraat | 1998 |
Charged with “Conspiracy to
Commit War Crimes. Chemical Weapons Attack by Iraqi
Military on the Kurdish village of Hallabja, Iraq. Prosecutors
claim that Anraat supplied thousands of tons
of agents for poison gas that the former Iraqi government used in the
1980-1988 Iran war and against its own Kurdish civilians and that he
continued to supply chemical
agents even after news of the Halabja attack, which killed an estimated
5,000 people. "Van Anraat was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for his role in a scheme to export U.S. origin precursor chemicals to Iraq . Van Anraat arranged for four shipments of thiodiglycol totaling more than 530 tons from the United States to Iraq in 1987 and 1988. Thiodiglycol is a precursor chemical for mustard gas. ICE agents determined that Van Anraat had purchased the chemicals from a Baltimore company called Alcolac International, Inc. Van Anraat was charged in Baltimore in 1989 and subsequently arrested in Italy on a U.S. arrest warrant. Italian authorities later released Van Anraat, who fled to Iraq where he purportedly remained until 2003. In February 2004, Dutch authorities began working with ICE and the U.S. Justice Department to bring charges against Van Anraat in the Netherlands , where Van Anraat had returned. In March 2004, ICE turned over significant evidence against Van Anraat to Dutch authorities, ultimately helping to bring charges against him." - Selected ICE cases |
Netherlands |
Convicted and sentenced to 15
years on 12/23/2005 |
| Muhammad
Chaouki Baadache, Ahmed Laidouni, David Courtaille |
1998 |
French antiterrorism officials say they first became aware of Mr. Baadache, Mr. Laidouni and Mr. Courtailler in 1998 when they were told by the United States Central Intelligence Agency that the three men had left a training camp of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan for Europe to plan terrorist attacks. | France |
Baadache, who was sentenced to a
10-year, Laidouni, who was
sentenced to seven years, Courtailler, sentenced to four years, but the court suspended two years of his sentence. |
| Mrs. Edral |
1996 |
A member of the DHKP-C
(Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front)
terrorist organisation, murdered Ozdemir Sabanci, well-known Turkish
businesman and head of Turkish Toyota company. The prosecutors say that
Erdal played a major role in the assassination of Sabancı as she had
been hired by subcontractors at his office and secured access for the
killers. An investigating judge will first need to assess whether the case against her is strong enough for a trial. Belgian police officials, judges and prosecutors are then expected to visit Turkey to discuss facts of the murder case ahead of the retrial. |
Belgium |
Trial began in September of 2007
while Erdal remains in Turkey. |
| Rashed
Ramda |
1995 |
Algerian man accussed of helping fund and organize a string of terror attacks in Paris.The first was a July 1995 blast in the Saint-Michel train station that killed eight people and injured 150, as well as attacks in October 1995 at a subway stop and the Musee d'Orsay train station that injured another 44. The bombings used gas cooking canisters loaded with nails, sometimes hidden in garbage cans. | France |
Sentenced to life in prison on
October 26, 2007 |
| The Nation of Libya | 1986 |
Attacks on the LaBelle Dischoteque Night Club in Berlin by the Orchestrated by the Libyian Intelligence Service. Two US servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed and 229 persons wounded | Germany |
In August of 2001, the Qadhafi Foundation pledged to compensate victims wounded in the bombing. In 2001, four individuals were convicted in the attacks, however, Libya did not forrmally accept responsibility. |
| Accused |
Event Date |
Particulars |
Country
of Trial |
Status |
| Sabri al-Banna also known as Abu Nidal xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
1994 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
Head of the Abu Nidal terrorist
organization
(ANO), charged
with the assassination in 1994 of a Jordanian diplomat in Lebanon. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
Jordan |
Sentenced to death in absentia
and four
ANO members were also sentenced to death. (One was arrested in Jordan
upon
his arrival from Libya in early January 2002 and three still remain at
large.) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| Ra’ed Hijazi | 1999 |
The death penalty was requested in the trial of dual US-Jordanian national Ra’ed Hijazi, who had been implicated in the Bin Ladin-linked Millennium plot in late 1999. Hijazi allegedly confessed to planning terrorist attacks in Jordan and to undergoing military training in al-Qaida camps inside Afghanistan. | Jordan |
In 2000, Hijazi had been convicted in absentia and sentenced to death along with five others. Hijazi’s death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 11 February 2002 by the State Security Court. |
| Various Individuals |
2000 |
In December 2001, Singapore
authorities
detained 15 suspects—two were subsequently released—all members of the
clandestine Jemaah Islamiyah or "Islamic Group." The suspects are being
held in custody under the Internal Security Act, which allows for a
two-year
detention without trial. Decisions on a trial will be made when the
investigation
is complete. The terrorists had photographed the Embassy several
times. Procurement had begun on 21 tons of explosive material, enough
to
make a series of devastating truck bombs. Four tons of bombmaking
chemicals
to be used in the plot remained at large at the time this was written.
(Two tons had been used to vicious effect in the Oklahoma City
bombings;
the terrorists wanted enough to level several buildings in Singapore.)
The main target was to be the US Embassy. Surveillance was also
conducted
against allied embassies and US companies. |
Singapore |
|
| 11 members of Yemeni Al Qaeda cell | 10/12/2000 |
Rubber Dingy packed with
explosives -- suicide bombers attacked the U.S.S Cole while in the port
of Aden for provisioning. |
Yemen |
Trial began in June 0f 2004 |
| Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi | 2001 - 2002 |
aA-Darbi
charged with conspiring with others to attack civilians, to murder in
violation of the law of war and to destroy property in violation in of
the law of war, conspiring to hazard a vessel and to commit terrorism,
as well as providing material support to terrorism. According to CNN, Al Darbi is the brother-in-law of Khalid al-Mihdhar, a hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 77 on September 11, 2001. |
GITMO |
U.S. Office of Military Commissions preparing to swear out charges (next step is review by convening authority who may refer to trial or dismiss) |
| Abed Abdulrazak al-Kamel, Ali Ahmed Mohamed Jarallah |
12/30/2002 |
Shootings of three
Americans in Jibla, Yemen |
Yemen |
Abed Abdulrazak al-Kamel, the
shooter, and Ali Ahmed Mohamed Jarallah, the planner, were tried,
convicted, and sentenced to death in separate trials in 2003. |
| Accused |
Event Date |
Particulars |
Country
of Trial |
Status |
| 7 unnamed members of Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) |
2005 |
5
of the named suspects were present for the trial for the August 17, 2005 attacks in
Chapainawabganj, a town 145 miles west of Dhaka. 2 were tried in
abstensia. |
Bangladesh |
On January 31, 2008, all seven found guilty and sentenced to life. |
| Salvatore Mancuso | Columbian
terrorist turned himself into the authorities, a commander in the
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). |
Columbia |
Helping
authorities with pursuit of others in the AUC |
|
| Abdullah Nassar al-Arifi | 9/11/2001
and 2002 |
Linked to the
9/11 attackers the attacks in Bali, Indonesia |
Philippines/U.S. |
May
be cooperating with U.S. and Philippines Officials, however no word on
whether he was actually transferred to U.S. Custody or remains in the
Philippines |
Amrozi Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron (alias Mukhlas), Imam Samudra, Ali Imron |
10/12/2002 |
The Bali Bombing Suspects, which killed 200+
including some 88 Australians, the blast was set off outside a popular
Bali nightclub. Imron assembled the explosives used in the blast. |
Bali |
Nurhasyim was convicted and sentenced to death, as well as was Imam Samudra. Ali Imron was sentenced to life in September of 2003. The 3 are filing a "Judicial Review" similar to an appeal, in March of 2008. A final appeal was rejected by the Indonesian Supreme Court on July 18, 2008, paving the way for an unnamed date for execution by firing squad. ABC News reports the death sentences will be carried out shortly on 8/27/2008 |
| "Jihad" Jack Thomas | Australia |
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| Lori Berenson | 2000-2001 |
involvement with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Front, or MRTA, conducting terrorist operations while as a member of that terrorist organization.. | Peru |
The conviction and sentence were upheld by the Peruvian Supreme Court 18 February 2002. |
| The leader of the former Salafist Group for Call and Combat (which changed its name to the al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa) | Algeria |
Sentenced to death in abstentia
along with seven others |
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| Muhammad Basri, Arbin Djanatu, Iwan Ridwan, Tugiran, plus seven others |
2004-2005 |
Djanatu, Ridwan and Tugiran were accussed of illegal arms possession and involvement in the bombing of a busy New Year's market in the Christian-dominated town of Tentena that killed 22 people in 2005. Basri was accused of the beheadings of three high-school students in October 2005, of shooting of a priest and two students in 2004 in Central Sulawesi province, ordering the bombing of a house belonging to a Christian and the illegal possession of arms and explosives. | Indonesia |
On December 12, 2007, Basri was sentenced to 19 yrs, Djanatu, Ridwan and Tugiran were sentenced to 14 years. The seven others were sentenced the week before with sentences ranging from 10 to 18 years for similar acts against Christians |
| March
2003 - Jamaican-born
Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, a supporter of al
Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to nine years in jail for
incitement to murder by urging his followers to kill non-believers in a
so-called holy war. April 2003 - Two Algerians, Baghdad Meziane and Brahim Benmerzouga, were jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of raising cash for terrorism, making them the first people with suspected al Qaeda links to be imprisoned in Britain. April 2005 - Kamel Bourgass, aka Nadir Habra, an al Qaeda-trained Algerian, was convicted of a plot to launch chemical and bomb attacks after a global investigation across 17 countries. Bourgass was also found guilty in 2004 of the murder of detective Stephen Oake after his flat was raided in Manchester. Police said the raid was linked to the discovery of ricin in London. Bourgass was sentenced to 22 years for the murder. April 2005 - Briton Saajid Badat, who admitted conspiring with "shoebomber" Richard Reid to blow up airliners over the Atlantic but had a change of heart before boarding his flight, was jailed for 13 years. September 2005 - Andrew Rowe, a British Muslim convert, was found guilty of terrorist offences and sentenced to 15 years in jail for possessing secret codes and a hand-written weapons handbook. British anti-terrorism officials described him as an "international warrior". November 2006 - Dhiren Barot, a senior al Qaeda operative, who admitted a plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and carry out attacks in Britain with gas-filled limousines and a "dirty bomb", was jailed for a minimum of 30 years. April 2007 - Five Britons -- Omar Khyam, Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar, Waheed Mahmood and Salahuddin Amin -- were jailed for life for plotting al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain ranging from nightclubs to trains and a shopping centre. June 2007 - Seven Britons linked to a plot to blow up U.S. financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange, and stage a series of attacks in Britain were jailed for a total of 136 years. Prosecutors said the men -- Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, Junade Feroze, Zia Ul Haq, Abdul Aziz Jalil, Nadeem Tarmohamed and Omar Abdur Rehman and Qaisar Shaffi -- were part of a group headed by Dhiren Barot. July 2007 - Moroccan-born Younes Tsouli, Briton Waseem Mughal and Jordanian-born Tariq al-Daour were sentenced to a total of 24 years in prison for inciting terrorism over the Internet, in the first case of its kind in Britain. July 2007 - A court sentenced Omar Altimimi to nine years in jail for possessing al Qaeda computer material, including documents suggesting hitting nightclubs and airports. Police described him as a failed asylum seeker living in northern England and a terrorist "sleeper". July 2007 - Muktah Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman are all found guilty of conspiracy to murder in plotting the July 2005 attack on London's transport system using bombs carried in rucksacks. They are sentenced to 40 years in jail. - Chronology of Major Terrorism Trials, Reuters, July 11, 2007 |
| BELGIUM Feb. 2006. Three men were convicted of belonging to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which had been linked to attacks in Madrid and Casablanca. Eight others were found guilty on lesser charges, and two acquitted. BRITAIN April 2005. Briton Saajid Badat was jailed for 13 years after admitting to conspiring with "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up aircraft over the Atlantic. -- September 2005. Andrew Rowe, a British convert to Islam, was jailed for 15 years for possessing terrorist materials, including secret codes and a weapons manual. March 2006 - Seven Britons - Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar, Omar Khyam, his brother Shujah Mahmood, Waheed Mahmood, Nabeel Hussain, and Salahuddin Amin - went on trial accused of plotting to bomb clubs, trains and synagogues in England in what police described as Britain's biggest terrorism trial since Sept. 11. November 2006. A man who admitted a plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and carry out attacks in Britain with gas-filled limousines and a "dirty bomb", Dhiren Barot, was jailed for a minimum of 40 years. Jan. 2007 - Trial opened in London of Muktah Said Ibrahim, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Hussein Osman, Yassin Hassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya who were charged with conspiracy to murder in plotting an attack on London's transport system in July 2005 using bombs carried in rucksacks. FRANCE June 2005. A French court jailed three men for terrorist conspiracy after finding them guilty of helping Richard Reid. June 2006 - A French court convicted 25 Islamist militants of planning terror attacks in Paris and of recruiting fighters to send to Chechnya and Afghanistan. Four ringleaders, who were either Algerian nationals or of Algerian descent, received jail terms of between nine and 10 years. GERMANY June 2005. An appeals court upheld the acquittal of Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi who was accused of complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks and belonging to a terrorist group. He was expelled as he posed a danger to Germany. October 2005. Four Arab men accused of planning to bomb Jewish targets on the orders of militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi received sentences of between five and eight years. -- Jan. 2007 - Germany's highest court rejected an appeal by Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq, friend of the Sept. 11 hijackers who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in November 2006 for being an accessory to mass murder. ITALY Nov. 2006. An Italian court sentenced Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, also known as "Mohamed the Egyptian", who was accused of being one of the masterminds of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, to 10 years in prison for belonging to an international terrorist network. NETHERLANDS March 2006. A court handed down sentences of up to 15 years to nine Islamist militants guilty of belonging to a terrorist organisation led by Bouyeri. Dec. 2006 - A court sentenced four Islamist militants to jail for planning terrorist attacks on politicians and the Dutch intelligence service. The court sentenced Dutch-Moroccan Samir Azzouz to eight years in jail for plotting attacks. SPAIN September 2005. A court convicted 18 of 24 accused, mostly of belonging to or cooperating with al Qaeda. Feb. 2007 - Twenty-nine people go on trial in Spain charged over the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people. Arabs and Spaniards face charges ranging from membership of a terrorist group to stealing dynamite. SWEDEN May 2005. A court sentenced two Iraqi men to six and seven years in jail for collecting money at mosques to fund attacks in Iraq by militant group Ansar al-Islam. - Factbox-Europe's Terrorism Trials, Reuters, 2/15/2007
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| BRITAIN November 2006 - Dhiren Barot, a senior al Qaeda operative who admitted to a plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and carry out attacks in Britain with gas-filled limousines and a "dirty bomb", is jailed for a minimum of 30 years. Seven other Britons linked to the same plot were jailed for a total of 136 years in June, 2007. April 2007 - Five Britons -- Omar Khyam, Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar, Waheed Mahmood and Salahuddin Amin -- are jailed for life for plotting al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain on targets ranging from nightclubs to trains and a shopping centre. Prosecutors said they planned to use 600 kg (1,300 lb) of ammonium nitrate fertiliser to make bombs in revenge for Britain's support for the United States after the 9/11 attacks. July 2007 - Moroccan-born Younes Tsouli, Briton Waseem Mughal and Jordanian-born Tariq al-Daour are sentenced to jail terms of between six-and-a-half and 10 years for inciting terrorism over the Internet. July 2007 - Muktah Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman are jailed for 40 years each for conspiracy to murder in connection with failed suicide bombings on London's transport system on July 21, 2005. Ghanaian Manfo Kwaku Asiedu was sentenced to 33 years for helping in the 2005 plot. Adel Yahya was jailed for nearly seven years earlier this month after pleading guilty to a lesser offence. FRANCE June 2006 - A French court convicts 25 Islamist militants of planning terrorist attacks in Paris and of recruiting fighters to send to Chechnya and Afghanistan. Four ringleaders, who were either Algerian nationals or of Algerian descent, receive jail terms of between nine and 10 years. July 2007 - Eight men of Turkish, Moroccan and French nationality are found guilty of associating with criminals engaged in a terrorist undertaking and handed sentences ranging from a year's suspended jail to 10 years in prison. The men were suspected of belonging to a France-based cell of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which carried out the May 16, 2003, attacks in Casablanca which killed 45 people. The court found no direct link between the men on trial and the Casablanca attacks. GERMANY October 2005 - Four Arab men accused of planning to bomb Jewish targets by order of militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi receive sentences of between five and eight years. SPAIN September 2005 - A court convicts 18 of 24 accused, mostly of belonging to or cooperating with al Qaeda. October 2007 - A Spanish court finds 21 people guilty out of 28 charged over the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people. Seven were acquitted of involvement. Moroccan Jamal Zougam and Spaniard Emilio Suarez Trashorras were both given sentences of thousands of years, although under Spanish law can only serve up to 40 years. All the suspects pleaded innocent and those found guilty are expected to appeal. - FACTBOX-Major trials of planned attacks in Europe, Reuters, 11/20/2007 |