French court convicts Moroccan man on terror plot
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 be barred from France afterward. He had also been suspected ties to two men involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Posted by: Fred 2006-10-27 |