France convicts 5 ex-Guantanamo inmates
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A court Wednesday convicted five former inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of having links to terrorist groups, while acquitting a sixth man.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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A court convicted a fifth man Friday in connection with an extremist cell whose leader plotted to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and behead him "like a pig."
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A Yemeni court jailed five al Qaeda supporters for 10 years Saturday for bombing the French supertanker Limburg and sentenced to death another militant who plotted with them to kill the US ambassador to Sanaa.
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Iran acknowledged for the first time Sunday that it has convicted some Iranian nationals of supporting al-Qaida, saying the number was fewer than five.
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Six French activists sentenced  in Chad to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap dozens  of children had their sentences converted into French jail  terms of the same length by a court on Monday.
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Five former Guantanamo Bay inmates were  found guilty on Wednesday of terrorism-related charges by a  French court and sentenced to one year in prison.
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Five Afghan prison guards and police and  two prisoners were killed in a jail break attempt by al Qaeda  inmates on Friday and a shoot-out was going on with another  two, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Thirty-five Pakistani detainees released from US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba returned home yesterday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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Five men who stored explosives manuals and suicide bombing videos on their computers were released from jail this week after a British court quashed their convictions on terrorist offenses.
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PARIS  - A Briton released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told Europe's top human rights body Friday he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of "systematic abuse" in custody.
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A 63-year-old British pensioner arrested in northern France with a million dollars&#39; worth of Ecstasy pills in his car was sentenced on Friday to five years&#39; in jail.
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Five men accused of a string of offences related to training camps for Islamist extremists were seen using techniques used by Iraqi insurgents and the Taliban, a court heard Friday.
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French police on Thursday were holding five men believed to be members of a logistical support cell for the Al-Qaeda's branch in the Maghreb, a source close to the case said.
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Six French aid workers were sentenced  to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found  them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from  the African country.
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Cuba this week freed five of 75 of the independent journalists, opposition party members and rights activists sentenced to long terms in April 2003 after a crackdown on dissent.
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WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, Lt...