Verdict expected in trial of 4 men accused of foiled plot to attack US targets in Germany
By APThursday, March 4, 2010
Verdict expected in German terror trial
DUESSELDORF, Germany — A court is expected to deliver its verdict in the trial of four men who have acknowledged participating in a foiled 2007 plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany.
Thursday’s scheduled verdict at the Duesseldorf state court comes at the end of a trial that opened last April.
Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to 13 years for the men — two German converts to Islam and two Turkish citizens.
The men were arrested in 2007. They are suspected of operating as a German cell of the radical Islamic Jihad Union, and are charged with plotting bombing attacks in Germany against American citizens and facilities including the U.S. Air Force’s Ramstein base.
All four defendants have confessed. There are no formal pleas in German trials.
