Spain Reduces Sentence of 9/11 Conspirator
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 1, 2006 at 7:36 am PDT • Views: 163
No reasons are given in this article, but Spain has reduced the sentence of a 9/11 Al Qaeda conspirator: Spain acquits Sept 11 suspect of conspiracy charge. (Hat tip: LawHawk.)
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s High Court acquitted on Thursday a man accused of conspiring to help commit the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, court papers said.
Judicial sources said the man, known as Abu Dahdah, would serve 12 years in jail for leading a terrorist group rather than the full 27 years to which he had been sentenced.
Abu Dahdah, whose full name is Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, was accused of being an al Qaeda member.
“We must absolve, and we do absolve, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas of the crime of conspiracy to commit terrorist murder for which he was accused,” the court document said.
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