Head of Al Qaeda Cell in Spain Gets 27 Years
El Pa??s reports today that eighteen of twenty-four individuals charged with crimes related to Al Qaeda activities were sentenced today in Madrid. The most significant of the sentences was of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah. Dahdah was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment for conspiracy in the New York 9-11 attacks, as well as for being the leader of the Al Qaeda cell responsible for the March 11 train bombings in Madrid.
The Spanish Tribunal’s sentences today mark the very first such sentences related to the September 11th attacks in the world. No other court procedings have yet resulted in convictions or have come to the judgement stage.