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ROTTERDAM - Police have arrested 12 Somali men suspected of planning a terrorist attack in the Netherlands, Dutch public prosecutors said Saturday.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Five Somali men were sentenced to prison Thursday for attacking a Dutch-Antilles-flagged cargo ship with automatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, in the first piracy case to come to trial in Europe in modern times.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch court has convicted five Somalis of piracy and sentenced them to five years each in prison in the first piracy case to come to trial in Europe.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch court is to issue its verdict in the piracy case of five Somalis accused of attacking a freight ship in the Gulf of Aden, the first such case in a European court.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday demanded seven-year prison sentences for five Somali men accused of attempting to hijack a cargo ship, in Europe's first piracy trial stemming from the rising tide of banditry in the Gulf of Aden.
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