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May 30, 2007
Spain: Three Pakistani Muslims Jailed On Terror Charges
News from Expatica and the Jang states that yesterday (Tuesday May 29) three Pakistanis were convicted of sending money from Spain to fund Al Qaeda operations in Pakistan.
A tribunal in Madrid gave the three men, Mohammad Afzaal, Shahzad Ali Gujar and Choudhry Mohammad sentences of five and a half years' jail for terrorist collaboration. Mohammad Afzaal was given an additional four years' jail for drug dealing.
The men were said to have transferred 800,000 Euros ($1,074,200) of cash to Islamists, including Amjad Hussain Farooqui, aka Mansur Hasnain alias Imtiaz Siddiqui alias Hyder, alias Doctor. This individual had been implicated in two attempts against the life of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, and also in the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Farooqui had been killed on September 26, 2004. They may also have given money to Rabei Osman, who is curently on trial in Madrid for the train bombings of March 11, 2004, in which nearly 200 people died.
The three men who were convicted yesterday had been arrested in the fall of 2004, along with 11 other individuals. They had been suspected of plotting to attack high-rise buildings in Barcelona. The prosecution had requested jail sentences of up to 32 years, but the 11 other men were acquitted by the tribunal of these charges, but two of them were convicted of forging documents and sentenced to jail terms of six months.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 30, 2007 8:59 PM
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