JURIST - Paper Chase: BREAKING NEWS ~ Spanish court convicts al Qaeda leader on 9/11 charges

[JURIST] AP is reporting that a Spanish court has convicted a suspected al Qaeda cell leader of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the September 11 attacks [JURIST news archive] in the US.

8:11 AM ET - Immad Yarkas, the accused leader of al Qaeda's presence in Spain [BBC backgrounder], received a 27 year jail sentence. Two other al Qaeda suspects were acquitted. The verdicts come in Europe's largest trial of alleged al Qaeda members, with 3 men faces charges for helping to organize the September 11 attacks and 21 others charged with membership or association with a terrorist group, weapons possession, falsifying documents and fraud. AP has more.

Previously in JURIST's Paper Chase...

Spanish trial for 9/11 suspects wraps up
Spanish prosecutor insists on primacy of "rule of law" at end of 9/11 trial
Accused al Qaeda leader denies connection to hijackers
Trial of September 11 suspects opens in Spain
Spain seeks 74,000-year prison terms for al Qaeda suspects accused in 9/11 plot