Belgium Gives Tough Sentences to Islamist Militants
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A Belgian court handed down maximum prison sentences on Friday to a group of Islamist militants convicted of links to organizations supporting Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
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A French court jailed Algerian Rachid  Ramda for life on Friday for his role in financing a spate of  bomb attacks on the Paris underground rail network that killed  eight people and wounded 200 others in 1995.
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Belgium stepped up security on Friday against a possible terrorist attack after arresting 14 suspected Islamic militants and thwarting what it said was a plot to spring an al Qaeda suspect from jail.
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Seventeen people are arrested for allegedly 'plotting attacks', Belgian prosecutors say.
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Belgium on Saturday released all 14 suspected Islamic militants who were held over what police said was a plot to spring an al Qaeda suspect from jail.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Belgium to pay two Palestinian asylum seekers $21,861 in damages for what it called inhuman and degrading treatment when they were waiting for deportation at Belgian detention centers.
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A former Rwandan army major was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the 1994 killings of 10 Belgian peacekeepers at the start of the Rwandan genocide.
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Belgian authorities plan to step up security measures following a terrorist threat, officials said on Friday.
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Belgian soldiers with links to extreme-right groups were among 17 people arrested for allegedly planning attacks aimed at &quot;destabilizing&quot; the country's institutions, the Belgian prosecutor's office said.
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An Islamist extremist who hatched a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier then publish the footage on the Internet was jailed for life on Monday.
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A little-known Islamist group has threatened to carry out attacks in the Netherlands following a series of attacks on Muslim buildings there, according to an Internet statement posted on Tuesday.
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A German court sentences an Iraqi man for sending money to the Sunni Islamist militant group, Ansar al-Islam.
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BERLIN, Dec. 21 -- Belgian police said Friday they had arrested 14 people who were planning an armed raid to free an al-Qaeda follower convicted of plotting to detonate a truck bomb on a NATO base in Belgium.
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A French prosecutor requested a 10-year jail sentence for French Muslim convert Willie Brigitte for allegedly conspiring with Pakistani extremists to plot terrorist attacks in Australia.
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Twelve Islamic militants were convicted of terrorism-related charges, including eight with alleged ties to al-Qaida who had volunteered to fight in Iraq, Morocco's official news agency reported.
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BELGRADE, Jan. 23 (IPS) - The sentencing of three young Muslims to a total of  40 years in prison has raised new concern over the spread of  militant Islam in the Balkans.
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Ten accused Islamic militants were convicted Thursday and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 10 years for their roles in a millennium plot to blow up a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg on New Year's Eve 2000.