On appeal. "Spain's Top Court Acquits 14 Of Islamist Terrorism," from AFP, October 7 (thanks to Twostellas):
MADRID (AFP)--Spain's Supreme Court Tuesday acquitted on appeal 14 of the 20 men who were sentenced jail in February for belonging to an Islamic terrorist group suspected of planning to blow up a courthouse.The National Audience, Spain's top antiterrorism court, had sentenced the 14 to prison terms from seven to 11 years for membership in an al-Qaida-inspired cell.
The Supreme Court also reduced the sentence of another man from nine to two years. It acquitted him of belonging to a terrorist cell but upheld a conviction for document forgery.
The court confirmed all the convictions against five others, including Abderrahman Tahiri, also known as Mohammed Achraf, who was found to have tried to obtain explosives to blow up a court with a massive truck bomb....
Prosecutors charged the men during their trial with planning an attack either on the National Audience, the Supreme Court, a Madrid metro station or the headquarters of Spain's opposition Popular Party.
Wave the white flag high, Spain
Wave the white flag high.
memories fade over time, and so this happens, jihad will be more bold, then you will have a police state.
Imagine if it was the Supreme Court's own facilities that had been targeted. That's what it's going to take for some of the willfully blind to get the message.
Did the Supreme Court give any reason for the acquittal? It wasn't in the article.