(AKI) - Spain's national court has granted provisional freedom to ten of the 30 terrorism suspects charged with plans to blow up the court building.
| No skin off my fore. It's their country. They can be as stoopid as they want to be. |
In 2004, in what was called "Operacion Nova" an Islamist cell that planned to blow up the court building using a truck laden with 500 kilogrammes of explosives was dismantled.
| But that was all in the past, y'know. We're all so much older and more mature now. |
The suspects, believed to be linked to al-Qaeda, face between eight and 43 years in prison. Ten of them were granted conditional freedom by the national court after being jailed for four years, half the maxium sentence that they faced. Only five of the ten will be permitted to leave prison because the others were serving sentences for other offences.
| That kinda leads me to the conclusion that maybe they don't deserve leniency. |
The released suspects have been ordered to report regularly to police and forbidden to leave Spain.
| I think I'd have made it a requirement that they do leave. But that's just me. |
On January 20 Spanish police arrested 14 suspects of Pakistani and Indian origin alleged to have been planning a terrorism attack on Barcelona, ahead of the general election in March.
| They'll be sprung in a bit, too. That's because us westerners are ever so civilized and cosmopolitan. And if we're nice to them maybe they'll leave us alone and kill somebody else. |
An Islamist terrorist attack on Madrid commuter trains killed 191 people in March 2004. It took place three days before the last general election. |