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Spanish court throws out 9/11 conviction MARIA JESUS PRADES - AP VIA StopLying.ca June 12, 2006 MADRID, Spain - Spain‘s Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an al-Qaida suspect‘s conviction for conspiracy to commit murder in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, weeks after prosecutors acknowledged the evidence against him was weak. Before the ruling, Yarkas had been the only person in the world with a standing conviction over the Sept. 11 attacks after a trial. Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States, pleaded guilty in April 2004 and was sentenced to life in prison in May. He did not stand trial. A Moroccan convicted in Germany in 2003 was later acquitted on appeal. The court announced only its verdicts in the Yarkas appeal and the other cases, not its grounds for the decisions. The explanation is expected to be released in a few days, court officials said. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Yarkas was sentenced to 15 years for conspiracy to commit murder in the Sept. 11 attacks and 12 years for belonging to a terrorist organization. He was the only person at the Spanish trial convicted specifically of Sept. 11 involvement. Chebli and one other man facing charges of planning Sept. 11 were acquitted. A three-judge panel of a lower court that returned the initial ruling against Yarkas in September said he was innocent of a more serious charge of being accomplice to mass murder. But it found him guilty of "conspiracy with the suicide terrorist" Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker, and other members of the Hamburg, Germany-based cell that staged the Sept. 11 attacks. However in April, prosecutor Fernando Sequeros said that while Yarkas was an "evil" man who embraced al-Qaida‘s ideas, there was no firm evidence he took part in Sept. 11 planning. Sequeros said it might be argued that Yarkas knew of plans for Sept. 11. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Spanish court throws out 9/11 conviction

MARIA JESUS PRADES - AP VIA StopLying.ca
June 12, 2006

World MADRID, Spain - Spain‘s Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an al-Qaida suspect‘s conviction for conspiracy to commit murder in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, weeks after prosecutors acknowledged the evidence against him was weak.

Before the ruling, Yarkas had been the only person in the world with a standing conviction over the Sept. 11 attacks after a trial. Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States, pleaded guilty in April 2004 and was sentenced to life in prison in May. He did not stand trial. A Moroccan convicted in Germany in 2003 was later acquitted on appeal.

The court announced only its verdicts in the Yarkas appeal and the other cases, not its grounds for the decisions. The explanation is expected to be released in a few days, court officials said.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Yarkas was sentenced to 15 years for conspiracy to commit murder in the Sept. 11 attacks and 12 years for belonging to a terrorist organization. He was the only person at the Spanish trial convicted specifically of Sept. 11 involvement. Chebli and one other man facing charges of planning Sept. 11 were acquitted.

A three-judge panel of a lower court that returned the initial ruling against Yarkas in September said he was innocent of a more serious charge of being accomplice to mass murder. But it found him guilty of "conspiracy with the suicide terrorist" Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker, and other members of the Hamburg, Germany-based cell that staged the Sept. 11 attacks.

However in April, prosecutor Fernando Sequeros said that while Yarkas was an "evil" man who embraced al-Qaida‘s ideas, there was no firm evidence he took part in Sept. 11 planning.

Sequeros said it might be argued that Yarkas knew of plans for Sept. 11.

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