"anyone who gets an interview with Osama is bit dodgey"

international | crime and justice | other press Monday September 26, 2005 18:24 by jotter - I'm taking names. you're going in the book.

The results of the Spanish 911 Trials are in.

The courts of spain have today passed sentance on a number of people who have stood accused of forming an Al Qaeda ring in europe and beyond with direct links to the terrorist event of September 11.

Amongst those who have been sentanced wa the "star reporter" with the Arabic-language satellite TV station Al Jazeera, Tayseer Allouni.

Allouni is famous for being the first journalist to see Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden after the 11 September attacks in the United States, interviewing him on 21 October 2001.

Spanish courts like Italian courts and few others see the prosecution ask for sentances, and they often add them up, you murder three people, they ask for three life sentances.

Driss Chebli got 6 years prosecution asked for 74,334.
José Luis Galán González a very spanish sounding name got 9 years, prosecution asked for 21.
Najib Chaib got 8 years of the 12 wanted
Osama Darra got 11 years, his name probably didn't help him, the prosecution asked for 12.
Jasem Mahboule got 11 years, 12 asked for
Mohamed Needl Acaid got 8 and a half of the 12 requested.
Mohamed Zaher Asade got 8 and a half of the 12 requested.
Said Chedadi got 8 years of the 12 requested.

Now Mr Mohamed Ghaleb Kalaje stands out, he got 9 years, and thats just what the prosecution wanted.
But he wasn't the only one Mr Abdullah Khayata Kattan got his full 9 years too.

Sadik Merizak, Hassan Al Hussein and Abdelaziz Benyaich were all a bit luckier, 8 years out of 9.

Taysir Alony Kate the Star reporter!!! got 7 years out of 9. Keen readers might remember that Reporters without Borders got upset earlier this month when he was re-arrested and couldn't make his mammy's sickbed.
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=100026&src=0

Abdalrahman Alarnaot got 8 years and a half out of 9.
Jamal Hussein must be pleased, he got only 6 years out of the 9 threatened.

& then the lucky men who were let off, let us know their names and note they were acquitted of conspiring to cause 911 and do Al Q things in our lands.

Mohamed Khair Al Saqqa , Waheed Koshagi Kelani, Ahmad Koshagi Kelani, Mohamed Khair Al Saqqa, and Bassam Dalati all were facing 9 years but are free men.

Sid Ahmed Boudjella walks as well, having only faced 7 years.

But surely the prize must go to
Ghasoub Al Abrash Ghalyoun who today is a free man prosecution had asked for 74,334 years.


The world is now a safer place.