Six jailed over Paris bomb plot

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A Paris court has sentenced a French-Algerian, Djamel Beghal, to 10 years in jail for plotting to bomb the US embassy in France in 2001.

Beghal, 39, was on trial with five other alleged militant Islamists. They got jail terms of one to nine years.

Beghal, arrested in Dubai in July 2001, retracted a confession he had made there, alleging it was extracted by torture during weeks of questioning.

He had said the bomb plot idea had come from al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

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2. Six convicted in alleged Paris bomb plot

PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD

Associated Press


PARIS - A French court convicted six men Tuesday in an alleged plot inspired by al-Qaida to send a suicide bomber into the U.S. Embassy in Paris, closing a six-week trial that shed light on the spread of Islamic radicals in Europe. <snip>

All six were convicted of "criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise," a charge commonly used in terrorism cases in France that, because of its sweeping nature, can facilitate conviction.

Each denied any connection to a terror plot. The lawyers for Beghal and Daoudi said they would appeal.

"Proof, we have none. There are no documents, no conversation," said Beghal's lawyer, Jean-Alain Michel. He denounced the trial as a "judicial parody." <snip>

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