4 convicted in German terror trial

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Source: AP

4 convicted in German terror trial
By MELISSA EDDY (AP) – 52 minutes ago

DUESSELDORF, Germany — Two Germans and two Turkish men were convicted Thursday over a foiled 2007 plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany and given prison sentences ranging up to 12 years.

Operating as a German cell of the radical Islamic Jihad Union, the four men had plotted bombing attacks against American citizens and facilities including the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein base in Germany, the Duesseldorf state court found.

The case "has shown with frightening clarity what acts young people who are filled with hatred, blinded and seduced by wrong-headed ideas of jihad are prepared and able to carry out," Judge Ottmar Breidling said.

Three defendants — Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider, both German converts to Islam, and Turkish citizen Adem Yilmaz — were convicted of membership in a terrorist organization, while Turkish citizen Attila Selek was convicted of supporting a terrorist organization.



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