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...fast. Less than a week after Spain's national court acquitted Rabei Osman of all charges in the 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191 people were killed, prosecutors have appealed the sentence. On Tuesday, they filed their appeal, alleging that some of the grounds used to acquit Osman, who was charged, among other things, with being the "intellectual author," or mastermind, behind the train bombings, were faulty...
...Spanish National Court issued its verdicts in the 2004 Madrid bombing case on Oct. 31. By U.S. standards, the verdicts seemed light--many sentences ranged from 12 to 15 years, and seven of the 28 suspects were absolved of all crimes, including alleged mastermind Rabei Osman. The ruling put to rest a long-festering accusation lodged by conservatives that the Basque separatist group ETA, not Islamic terrorists, was behind the attacks that killed 191 people and injured nearly 2,000 more. But it raised many questions about Spain's ability to prosecute terrorism cases now that Islamic terrorists...
Fernando Reinares, director of the Program on Global Terrorism at Spain's Elcano Royal Institute, says he didn't expect the outcome. "The police and judicial investigations had gathered abundant evidence to condemn some of those, like Osman and [Hassan] el Haski, who were not convicted or who received light sentences," he says...
Three years ago, the dusty general stores lining El Fasher's market sold dates, spices and sacks of maize flour. Cornflakes were a rarity. Yet, today the cool interior of Mohamed Osman Babkir's shop is packed with bottles of Spanish olive oil, balsamic vinegar and jars of preserved cherries. "People don't expect to find these things here," he says. "But there are people making money here, not just refugees...
...acting on concerns that Somalia's lawlessness could be exploited by al-Qaeda, initiated the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism, a covert program that funneled aid to warlords in return for their assistance in capturing suspected terrorists. One of those warlords approached by U.S. operatives was Osman Hassan Ali Atto. Once a top financier of warlord Aidid--Atto was captured just a week before the downing of the Black Hawks in 1993--he is the last independent warlord in Mogadishu, a testament to his ability to play both sides of the net. Blunt-spoken and avuncular, Atto...