Four Islamist terrorists convicted by German court

A German court in Dusseldorf has convicted four Islamists of conspiracy to murder and belonging to a foreign terrorist group for plotting to destroy US facilities within Germany, notes a Jurist report.

The four men, members of the radical Islamic Jihad Union, were apprehended in September 2007 while developing a plan to use three car bombs and 250kg of explosives on US targets. The attacks were planned to coincide with a vote in parliament on whether Germany should extend its military presence in Afghanistan. Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Schneider, both German-born converts to Islam, were sentenced to 12 years in prison. (...)