“The cell’s leaders, Karim Abdesalam Mohamed and Ismail Abdelaftif were sentenced to 12 years while the rest each received 10-year sentences.” What will they do when they get out? What will be done in prison to disabuse them of their jihadist sentiments? Why, nothing. Nothing at all.
“Spanish Court Sentences 11 for Jihad Recruitment,” Associated Press, October 2, 2015:
Spain’s National Court has convicted and sentenced 11 members of a recruitment network that sent militants to carry out attacks for al-Qaida-linked groups fighting in Syria.
A court statement Friday said the group, members of the Jabhat al-Nusra organization, recruited the militants in Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta and in neighboring Morocco.
The court said that between 2012 and 2013 the group sent some 28 combatants to Syria. At least eight died in attacks that claimed hundreds of victims.
All 11 are Spaniards of Moroccan background from Ceuta, where they were arrested in 2013.
The cell’s leaders, Karim Abdesalam Mohamed and Ismail Abdelaftif were sentenced to 12 years while the rest each received 10-year sentences.

ECAW says
”What will they do when they get out?”
I don’t understand what Robert Spencer is getting at here. Is he implying that determinate sentences are not the appropriate response? If so, what would be…life sentences, deportation?
“What will be done in prison to disabuse them of their jihadist sentiments? Why, nothing. Nothing at all.”
What could be done? Rehabilitation, or “deprogramming” hasn’t worked in the past, and why would it when the jihadis have a very clear theological case?
Angemon says
Light sentences for treason…
Rikki H says
For gods sakes either deport them or quietly dispose of them. Once revealed to be an enemy of your own country, they should no longer be your countries problem. The recruiters are the worst problem. They should be dispatched without mercy, the recruits however… I say let the untrained piss ants get blown away on the battlefield.
EL says
Wow ten years, then what? What about during those ten years? Do you think they will not thrive? It’s either the death penalty or nothing with these guys.