Reuters:
Four Arab men accused of planning to bomb Jewish targets in Germany on the orders of militant Islamist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were found guilty on Wednesday at the end of a marathon trial.I do not believe him. What do Dusseldorf discos have to do with the Israeli "system"?"In this case, Abu Musad al-Zarqawi should also be sitting on the defendants' bench," Judge Ottmar Breidling told the court in his explanation of the verdict.
Jordanians Mohammed Abu Dhess and Ismail Shalabi and Palestinian Ashraf Mohammad al-Dagma were found guilty of belonging to an Islamist militant group that planned attacks on two Jewish-owned Duesseldorf discos and a Berlin community center.
Algerian Djamel Moustfa had been charged with supporting the group and breaking Germany's weapons laws.
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Evidence in the trial, which started in February 2004, included wiretapped conversations in which Jordanian militant Zarqawi discussed with group members the state of preparations for the attacks, using codewords such as "honey" and "medicine" to refer to explosives.
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"I swear to you, Sheikh, I swear that if you ordered me to die, I would do it," Dhess allegedly told Zarqawi in one of the intercepted conversations in October 2001.
Dhess, the alleged ringleader, told the court on October 18 there had been no plan to attack Jewish targets. "I hate the Israeli system. But I don't hate the Jews as Jews," he said.
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