Spain jails 9/11-linked al-Qaida suspect

[Eugene]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1578723,00.html

2.15pm

Spain jails 9/11-linked al-Qaida suspect

Staff and agencies
Monday September 26, 2005

A suspected al-Qaida leader was sentenced to 27 years in prison in
Madrid today for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the
September 11 attacks on New York.

Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, 42, the alleged head of an al-Qaida cell,
was sentenced to 15 years in jail plus 12 more years for being the
leader of a terrorist organisation. The Spanish high court found he
had conspired with the September 11 plotters but cleared him of murder
in connection with those attacks.

Yarkas and two other al-Qaida suspects were charged with the specific
offence of helping to plot the 2001 attacks. Judges in Madrid today
acquitted the two other men of charges relating to the September 11
attacks, although one of them was found guilty of collaborating with
a terrorist organisation.

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Tayseer Alouni, a journalist for the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera,
was sentenced to seven years in jail for collaborating with a
terrorist group, but was acquitted of being a member of al-Qaida.

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Full article: here

Related story: Spain jails al-Jazeera reporter

[StrafingMoose]

1. Incredible they jailed the journalist...

For doing an interview with bin Laden. After all, CNN and BBC weren't arrested. Probably because Alouni dared to ask questions like "Are you still working for the CIA?" where CNN and BBC asked questions assuming that the bin Laden character is real.

[tx_dem41]

2. Where in the article does it state that he was jailed "for doing an

...interview with bin Laden?" In fact it states the following:

Prosecutors accused him of carrying money intended for al-Qaida members during visits to Afghanistan for his journalistic work.

If you have a point to make, don't make things up in order to support it.