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Spain's High Court has convicted suspected al-Qaida cell leader Barakat Yarkasf conspiracy in the plotting of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The court sentenced Barakat Yarkas to 27 years in prison. Prosecutors say he arranged a meeting in Spain of key planners of the attacks in July, 2001.
Prosecutors had hoped to convict Yarkas of the more serious charge of murder, and had requested a prison term of more than 74-thousand years -- or 25 years for each of the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11th. Two other suspects were acquitted.
Twenty-one other al-Qaida suspects stood trial with the three in Europe's biggest terror trial. Al-Jazeera correspondent Tayssir Alouni was sentenced to seven years in prison for carrying money to al-Qaida members in Afghanistan.
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