A Spanish judge has handed down a guilty sentence for Imad Yarkas, a co-conspirator in the planning and facilitation of the 9/11 attacks, according to FOX News: (thanks to BHall)
A suspected Al Qaeda cell leader was convicted Monday of conspiring to commit murder in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, concluding Europe's biggest trial of alleged members of the terrorist group.Imad Yarkas, one of 24 defendants on trial, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for conspiracy and of being a leader of a terrorist organization.
Yarkas had been charged with arranging a meeting in the Tarragona region of Spain in July 2001 at which key Sept. 11 plotters — alleged suicide pilot Mohamed Atta and plot coordinator Ramzi Binsalshibh — met to decide last-minute details, including the date of the massacre.
Spanish prosecutors, however, had pushed for a far heavier (and fully justified) sentence:
Prosecutors had accused Yarkas, a 42-year-old Spaniard of Syrian origin, of the more serious charge of being an accomplice to murder and requested a jail term of nearly 75,000 years — 25 years for each of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the suicide airliner attacks in 2001.
How can he not get life in prison (assuming Spain has no death penalty)? This is stunning. He gets to prostelytize in prison, unless he is separated from other inmates, and actually might live to see the light of day. Is Spain reforming their anti-terror legislation in light of the situation they are in?
Quijybo
Hmmm. If Spanish jail terms are anything like British ones, then even if the judge had agreed to the 25 years for each of the 3,000 murders he helped to commit, they would have probably run concurrently, and with remission he would have been free in 10 years or so.
How much of the 27 years term will he actually spend safely behind bars?
With the spanish law, 10 years or less, and free.
I’m aghast