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A Spanish court convicted four men of terrorism offenses in connection with recruiting suicide attackers for Iraq, but it acquitted 10 others for lack of evidence.
The National Court sentenced Algerian Kamal Ahbar and Moroccan Samir Tahtah to nine years in prison each for being members of a terrorist organization.
Another Moroccan, Mohamed el Idrissi, was sentenced to five years for collaborating with a terrorist group, and Spaniard Tarek Hamed Hamu was given two years for falsifying documents.
Prosecutors had argued during the February trial that all 14 belonged to a terrorist cell that tried to recruit fighters for the Iraq war.
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