THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008
22:06 MECCA TIME, 19:06 GMT
Belgium convicts bomber recruiters
The men helped recruit Muriel Degauque who died in an
attempt to attack a US military convoy in Iraq
Five men have been convicted in Brussels on charges of
belonging to a terrorist group that sent fighters to
Iraq, including a Belgian woman who blew herself up in
an attack on US troops north of Baghdad in 2005.
Bilal Soughir, who prosecutors said led the group, was
given a maximum 10-year sentence by the court's three
judges on Thursday.
Police and prosecutors said Soughir, 34, was
responsible for communicating with fighters in Iraq.
The other four men were given sentences of 28 months.
A sixth member of the group, who did not face
terrorism charges, was found guilty of falsifying
documents but received no punishment.
The court found that Soughir and his small
Belgium-based group, which included his younger
brother, Souhaieb, helped recruit and send fighters to
Iraq, including Muriel Degauque, 38, who died in an
attempt to attack a US military convoy.
Her explosives went off prematurely during the
incident on November 9, 2005, no one else was killed
in the explosion.
Degauque, the daughter of a hospital secretary, grew
up in a town outside the city of Charleroi before
becoming a baker's assistant.
She became involved in Islam after marrying an
Algerian. Belgian prosecutors say she entered Iraq
from Syria a month before her attack.
Authorities say the Belgian group Degauque became a
part of had embraced al-Qaeda's ideology.
The group included her second husband, a Belgian of
Moroccan origin, who entered Iraq with Degauque and
was killed while allegedly trying to set up a separate
suicide bombing.
Authorities said the Belgian network had been planning
to send more volunteers to Iraq for attacks.
Defence lawyers for the six argued they were not
terrorists but rather freedom fighters opposed to US
forces in Iraq.
The reading of the 200-page verdict took most of the
day at the city's palace of justice, which was under
tight security due to recent threats in the Belgian
capital.
Source: Agencies
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