Belgium Gives Tough Sentences to Islamist Militants
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A Belgian court handed down maximum  prison sentences on Friday to a group of Islamist militants  convicted of links to organizations supporting Osama bin  Laden's al Qaeda network.
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Belgian soldiers with links to extreme-right groups were among 17 people arrested for allegedly planning attacks aimed at &quot;destabilising&quot; the country's institutions, the Belgian prosecutor's office has revealed.
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Thirteen Congolese army soldiers and four former militia fighters have been sentenced to life imprisonment in separate war crimes convictions by local military authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Belgium steps up security in the capital after a plot to free a jailed al-Qaeda member is discovered, officials say.
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PHNOM PENH : A Cambodian court Wednesday sentencedIndonesian terror suspect Hambali, in absentia, and five other Muslims to life in prison for plotting a terrorist attack in the country, while freeing one Egyptian suspect, the judge said.
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A Cambodian court sentenced two Thai  Muslims and a Cambodian linked to Southeast Asian militant  group Jemaah Islamiah to life in jail Wednesday for plotting to  bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Phnom Penh.
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Twelve Islamic militants were convicted of terrorism-related charges, including eight with alleged ties to al-Qaida who had volunteered to fight in Iraq, Morocco's official news agency reported.
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BERLIN, Dec. 21 -- Belgian police said Friday they had arrested 14 people who were planning an armed raid to free an al-Qaeda follower convicted of plotting to detonate a truck bomb on a NATO base in Belgium.
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A Yemeni court jailed five al Qaeda supporters for 10 years Saturday for bombing the French supertanker Limburg and sentenced to death another militant who plotted with them to kill the US ambassador to Sanaa.
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Belgium on Saturday released all 14 suspected Islamic militants who were held over what police said was a plot to spring an al Qaeda suspect from jail.
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Belgium arrested 14 suspects and  stepped up security on Friday after thwarting what it said was  a plot to spring from jail an al Qaeda suspect arrested in  September 2001 for plotting attacks on U.S. targets.
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Three Egyptian men are sentenced to death over the bombing of Sinai resorts in October 2004.
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Six people were sentenced to prison following their conviction on charges of illegal arms possession and plotting terrorist acts, a court official said Tuesday.
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A Moroccan court sentenced 51 Islamists of the Ansar El Mahdi group to between two and 25 years in jail Friday for plotting to overthrow the government here and install an Islamist regime.
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The 14 people detained were described as Islamic extremists. Belgian authorities said raids in 15 locations, mostly in Brussels, had turned up explosives and arms.
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PARIS (BBC News) - An Algerian man has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for helping fund a wave of deadly bomb attacks on Paris Metro stations 12 years ago.  Rachid Ramda, of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), was jailed for a minimum of 22 years for his role in the attacks that killed eight and injured 150.  The blasts in three stations in 1995 were the worst bombings in France since World War II. Ramda was arrested in London in 1995 and accused of financing the operation from Britain.  After a 10-year battle between French and British authorities, he was extradited to France to face trial.
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Belgium steps up security in the capital after a plot to free a jailed al-Qaeda suspect is foiled, officials say.