DUESSELDORF, Germany — A court has convicted four men over a foiled 2007 plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany and given them prison sentences of up to 12 years.
Three of them — Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider, both German converts to Islam, and Turkish citizen Adem Yilmaz — were convicted of membership in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The fourth, Turkish citizen Attila Selek, was convicted of supporting a terrorist organization.
Gelowicz and Schneider were sentenced to 12 years in prison. Yilmaz was given 11 years and Selek five.
The men were accused of operating as a German cell of the radical Islamic Jihad Union and charged with plotting bombing attacks in Germany against American citizens and facilities including the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein base.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A court is expected to deliver its verdict in the trial of four men who have acknowledged participating in a foiled 2007 plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany.
Thursday's scheduled verdict at the Duesseldorf state court comes at the end of a trial that opened last April.
Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to 13 years for the men — two German converts to Islam and two Turkish citizens.
The men were arrested in 2007. They are suspected of operating as a German cell of the radical Islamic Jihad Union, and are charged with plotting bombing attacks in Germany against American citizens and facilities including the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein base.
All four defendants have confessed. There are no formal pleas in German trials.
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No Emotion [Today's News Poem, March 5, 2010]
http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-emotion-todays-news-poem-march-5.html
““They said he walked up very cool, like there was no distress,” Chief Keevill said Thursday night, quoting the officers. “He had no real emotion in his face.””
--Thom Shanker and Ian Urbina, New York Times, March 5, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/us/06gunman.html?hp
“The men showed no emotion in court today as they were convicted of conspiracy to murder and of belonging to a terrorist group.”
--Lauren Frayer, AOL News, March 4, 2010
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/germany-sentences-4-men-in-al-qaida-linked-plot-against-us-targets/19382760
“John Albert Gardner III stood in court in shackles with his eyes cast downward, showing no emotion, as an attorney waived arraignment and a reading of the complaint and entered pleas of not guilty in the potential death penalty case.”
--Elliot Spagat, The Associated Press, March 3, 2010
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hZxpBuPrX2vIYnBuZtCVLuNvBN6gD9E7FQCG1
Emotion's not a partial state
Of consciousness. Propensity's
Informed by itch. A scratch will sate
One spot, but not immensities
Of rash. Curtailer of most joy,
It smothers other body pleas;
The itch and scrape's another ploy
Of flesh to trick the self to ease.
The rapist's cock will torture him.
A theist's God will whisper 'smite'
Responding to their worship-hymn.
To paranoids, it's ever night;
In every shadow lurks a slight.
They seek to see the darkness right:
To spare their eyes the strain, they light
The world ablaze
And note the comforting of might.
They flee their pain and scorn delight.
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