Older news concerning the islamoterrorist of post 128, to do with the Madrid bombings. He's the one who denied the evidence against him by plagiarising the denial method pioneered by Ratzinger in recent times:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070215/19/12fop.html
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<b>'Mohammed the Egyptian,' alleged Madrid bombings mastermind</b>
Photo : AFPÂ
MADRID (AFP) - Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, the first of 29 suspects to take the stand in the trial of the 2004 Madrid train bombings which opened, is considered by Spanish prosecutors to be one of four masterminds of the deadly attacks.
Nicknamed "Mohammed the Egyptian", the 35-year-old allegedly admitted being the organizer of the biggest terrorist attack in Spanish history in telephone conversations that were intercepted by police in Italy.
He is one of the seven main suspects and is charged with 191 murders, 1,824 attempted murders and running a terrorist organisation.
Ahmed was arrested in June 2004 in Italy. A court in Milan sentenced him last November to 10 years in jail for membership of a terrorist organization before returning him to Spain.
"The inquiry clearly demonstrates the role of Rabei: influential member inside Al-Qaeda and at the head of the Islamist cell accused of the Madrid killings," the two Italian judges who tried him wrote in a statement outlining their reasons for having sentenced him.
During questioning by Spanish judge Juan Del Olmo in December 2005, "Mohammed the Egyptian" admitted to knowing some of the other suspects, most of them Moroccans, held over the Madrid attacks, which claimed 191 lives and injured almost 1,900.
He is reported to have spoken about organizing the attacks during telephone conversations with associates that were recorded by Italy's secret service.
"I was prepared to be a martyr but circumstances prevented me. Everything is in the hands of Allah," he is reported to have said in a telephone conversation that was intercepted in May 2004.
He is understood to have been in Italy at the time of the blasts but spent time in 2003 in Madrid's high-immigrant district of Lavapies, home to several of the presumed bombers.
At the start of the train bombing trial on Thursday "Mohammed the Egyptian" rejected all charges against him and said he would refuse to give evidence.
If convicted he faces 38,656 years in jail <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> , although under Spanish law he could only serve a maximum 40 years.
(Huh? 38,656 years in jail? How did they arrive at this number, by multiplying number of murders/intended murders with length of sentence for murder/intended murder?
But what does this non-sensically bloated figures mean in the end? And why two figures: the period of his sentence, and a separate maximum serving time? And why will he only serve 40 years, and won't be imprisoned for life?)
The trial is expected to last until July with a verdict expected in October.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/070215/19/12fop.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thursday February 15, 10:40 PM
<b>'Mohammed the Egyptian,' alleged Madrid bombings mastermind</b>
Photo : AFPÂ
MADRID (AFP) - Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, the first of 29 suspects to take the stand in the trial of the 2004 Madrid train bombings which opened, is considered by Spanish prosecutors to be one of four masterminds of the deadly attacks.
Nicknamed "Mohammed the Egyptian", the 35-year-old allegedly admitted being the organizer of the biggest terrorist attack in Spanish history in telephone conversations that were intercepted by police in Italy.
He is one of the seven main suspects and is charged with 191 murders, 1,824 attempted murders and running a terrorist organisation.
Ahmed was arrested in June 2004 in Italy. A court in Milan sentenced him last November to 10 years in jail for membership of a terrorist organization before returning him to Spain.
"The inquiry clearly demonstrates the role of Rabei: influential member inside Al-Qaeda and at the head of the Islamist cell accused of the Madrid killings," the two Italian judges who tried him wrote in a statement outlining their reasons for having sentenced him.
During questioning by Spanish judge Juan Del Olmo in December 2005, "Mohammed the Egyptian" admitted to knowing some of the other suspects, most of them Moroccans, held over the Madrid attacks, which claimed 191 lives and injured almost 1,900.
He is reported to have spoken about organizing the attacks during telephone conversations with associates that were recorded by Italy's secret service.
"I was prepared to be a martyr but circumstances prevented me. Everything is in the hands of Allah," he is reported to have said in a telephone conversation that was intercepted in May 2004.
He is understood to have been in Italy at the time of the blasts but spent time in 2003 in Madrid's high-immigrant district of Lavapies, home to several of the presumed bombers.
At the start of the train bombing trial on Thursday "Mohammed the Egyptian" rejected all charges against him and said he would refuse to give evidence.
If convicted he faces 38,656 years in jail <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> , although under Spanish law he could only serve a maximum 40 years.
(Huh? 38,656 years in jail? How did they arrive at this number, by multiplying number of murders/intended murders with length of sentence for murder/intended murder?
But what does this non-sensically bloated figures mean in the end? And why two figures: the period of his sentence, and a separate maximum serving time? And why will he only serve 40 years, and won't be imprisoned for life?)
The trial is expected to last until July with a verdict expected in October.
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