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- Indian police foiled an apparent plot to bomb American consulates in India and arrested Bangladeshi Sayed Abu
Nasir, 27, and three accomplices. (The New York Times, 1/21/99)
- A French court convicted and sentenced to prison terms Mohammed
Chalabi, Mourad Tacine and Mohamed Kerrouche for heading support networks for Islamic extremists in Algeria. (The International Herald Tribune, 1/23/99)
- An Egyptian court tried 107 Islamic extremists, 63 of whom were tried in absentia. Most of the defendants were members of Islamic Jihad, including Jihad leader Ayman Zawahri, reportedly a senior associate of Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan, Yasser Tawfik Sirri and Adel Abdel-Meguid, leaders of the Islamic Observation Center in London, and 13 alleged Jihad members who were extradited from Albania in 1998. Ahmed Salama Mabruk, the head of Jihad's military operations and one of three militants who had been extradited to Egypt from Albania, was later convicted and sentenced to hard labor for life. (The Washington Post, 2/2/99, www.ict.org.il/articles, 6/25/99)
- Pakistani police arrested Tunisian Babour Habib on suspicion of links to Osama bin Laden. (The Washington Post, 2/5/99)
- French authorities arrested Islamic militant Said Laidoni suspected of links to Osama bin Laden. (The Washington Post, 2/16/99)
- A French court convicted in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment six Libyan intelligence agents in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger that killed all 171 people aboard. One of those convicted, Abdallah Senoussi, is the brother-in-law of Libyan leader Moammar Qadhadi. (The Washington Post, 3/11/99)
- Scottish police formally charged two former Libyan intelligence agents, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima, with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, which killed 270 people including 189 Americans. (The New York Times, 4/7/99)
- French officials barred Palestinian terrorist Mohammed Daoud Audeh (Abu Daoud) from entering France because of his self-acknowledged role in the 1972 hostage-taking of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich in which 11 Israelis died. German police issued an arrest warrant for Abu Daoud charging him with being an accessory for murder for planning the hostage-taking. (International Herald Tribune, 5/4/99, AP, 6/11/99)
- Argentina's Supreme Court blamed the pro-Iranian terrorist groups Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah for the 1992 car bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people. A judge also charged Hezbollah with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires that killed 86 people. Following new suspicions about the involvement of local police in the AMIA blast, a Federal Appeals Court has ordered the re-arrest of six police officers. (Reuters, 5/10/99)
- Suspected Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist and fugitive Barbara Meyer, 42, surrendered to German police. She is wanted in connection with bombings, murders and robberies carried out by the RAF in the 1970s and 1980s, the most serious of which is her role in the February 1985 shooting murder of industrial motor manufacturer Ernst Zimmerman. (AP, 5/10/99)
- A Turkish court sentenced to death Semdin Sakik, 40, the top lieutenant to Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan for his role in the killings of 283 people in 191 acts of violence. (AP, 5/20/99)
- Twenty-four Islamic militants went on trial in France on charges relating to a spate of bombings in 1995 that killed 10 people and injured nearly 180 others which authorities charge had been ordered by Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (GIA). (International Herald Tribune, 6/2/99)
- A former Khmer Rouge commander, Nuon Paet, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killings of three western backpackers kidnapped from a train in 1994. When government troops overran Paet's mountaintop base, they found the slain bodies of Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater and Australian David Wilson. (AP, 6/7/99)
- An Algerian court sentenced an Islamic militant to life and two others to seven and five years in prison for the killing of seven Italian sailors in 1994. Four Islamic militants were sentenced to death in absentia. (Reuters, 6/15/99, 6/16/99)
- An Egyptian court sentenced four Islamic militants from the Islamic Group to life in prison for plotting to storm an Egyptian presidential palace in 1996. (AP, 6/17/99)
- Police in Ireland arrested 10 men in connection with the August 1998 bombing in Omagh that killed 29 people. (Bloomberg, 6/20/99)
- France's highest court rejected a final appeal by terrorist Carlos the Jackal who is serving a life sentence for the 1975 murders of two French intelligence agents and an alleged informer. (AP, 6/23/99)
- Belgium set up a security task force to deal with a threat made by the GIA offshoot Martyr's Battalion-Europe to launch terrorist attacks if Brussels does not release imprisoned Islamic militants. (AP, 6/28/99)
- The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan convicted 22 people for involvement in the bombing of government buildings that killed 16 people and included an assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov. Two main suspects including an Islamic fundamentalist leader, remain at large. (AP, 6/28/99)
- A German court convicted engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab, 64, of treason for providing technology to Iraq that could be used to make nuclear weapons. He was fined and sentenced to five years in prison. (AP, 6/29/99)
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