http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/26/france.terror.ap/
Jail for al-Qaeda-linked plotter PARIS, France (AP) -- A French court on Thursday convicted a Moroccan man on terror charges for his role in a thwarted bomb plot on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion in 2003. Karim Mehdi, 37, received a nine-year prison sentence in Paris criminal court, and was ordered barred from France afterward. He had also been suspected of ties to two men involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, and to al-Qaida. Mehdi pleaded innocent at the start of his trial last month, and prosecutors had sought a maximum 10-year prison sentence on charges of "criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise." In court, authorities said he had contacts with Ziad Samir Jarrah, who piloted the United Airlines flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, and Ramzi Binalshibh, who allegedly helped plan the 9/11 attacks. Mehdi was accused of planning to travel to La Reunion for a possible attack. He was arrested in June 2003 at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris where he was in transit to La Reunion. The court examined Mehdi's travels, including a 1992 trip to Afghanistan and al-Qaida training camps, a 1993 trip to war-torn Bosnia and a return there in 1994 with a humanitarian agenda. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
