A Swedish appeals court upheld a guilty verdict for two Iraqis charged with plotting and financing "terrorist crimes," but reduced their prison sentences. After being sentenced by a district court last May to seven and six years behind bars, Ali Berzengi, 29, and Ferman Abdullah, 25, were again found guilty in the Svea Appeals Court of "preparing terrorist crimes, preparing destruction perilous to the public and for breaking the ... financing law."The appeals court upheld the finding that the two men had collected large sums of money and transferred funds to "terrorist organization" Ansar al-Islam. It ruled, however, that prosecutors lacked proof that Berzengi and Abdullah had transferred the entire amount in question, $148,000, to the group, reducing their sentence to five and four and a half years imprisonment respectively. Once they have served their sentence the two men, who are the first to be charged under new anti-terror legislation introduced in Sweden in July 2003, will be deported from Sweden and barred from ever returning, the court ruled.