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FACTBOX-Europe's terrorism trials

15 Feb 2007 09:41:09 GMT
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Feb 15 (Reuters) - A Spanish trial began on Thursday of 29 people charged with involvement in the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people three years ago in the deadliest al Qaeda-related attack in Europe.

Following are details of recent terrorism trials in Europe:

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 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.

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