The Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot was an al-Qaeda plan to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market in 2000, foiled by French and German police. Through 2015 the opening said that in December 2004, ten others suspected Islamic militants were jailed in Paris for their part in the failed plot. Today the opening says fourteen people were convicted, without describing them as Islamic militants, though militant survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns fourteen people were convicted and not that Wikipedia once described the ten convicted in Paris as Islamic militants.
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Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot was an al-Qaeda plan to bomb the Christmas market ( Christkindelsmärik ) at the feet of Strasbourg Cathedral during the Christmas celebrations of 2000. .1In March 2003, four suspects allegedly linked to the terror plot were sentenced to between 10 and 12 years' imprisonment by a court in Frankfurt am Main , Germany . The German court said the group had planned to blow up pressure cookers packed with explosives, a technique they allegedly learned in Afghan camps. In December 2004, ten other suspected Islamic militants were jailed in Paris for their part in the failed plot. These suspects - all Algerian or French-Algerian - were sentenced to terms of up to 10 years. One of the convicted persons was said to have been an associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden . The 10 sentenced in Paris were convicted of criminal association with a terrorist enterprise, which according to state prosecutor Christophe Tessier had links to Islamic networks in Britain, Italy and Spain. The group's alleged leaders, Mohamed Bensakhria , 37 and Slimane Khalfaoui , 29, were given 10 years, and Mohamed Yacine Aknouche , 30, was given eight. Rabah Kadri , 37, who was in detention in the UK was given six years and was banned from entering French territory. The six other suspects, who received lesser terms, were alleged to have given logistical support to the plot by providing false documents to other group members . Der Frankfurter Al-Qaida-Prozess und das Netzwerk des Terrors (German) "Algeria's terror connection" "Algeria's 'export of terror'" "Jail for Strasbourg bomb plotters"2
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The Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot was a plan to blow up a cathedral in Strasbourg , France by members of Al-Qaida . In December 2000 , German police uncovered the plot in Frankfurt and raided an apartment building, where they found arms and explosives . In London , England , United Kingdom , an Islamist preacher named Abu Qatada was arrested for the attack, but was released on a lack of evidence. Italian police said that they wiretapped a telephone call related to the failure of the plot. This is the transcript. Sami Ben Khemais : "There is danger. Members of the bin Laden cell in Frankfurt have been captured. I am warning you that they got half the group in Germany." Tarek Maaroufi : "No!" Khemais: "Yes. They arrested our brothers in Germany and they found the arms warehouse in Germany, Frankfurt. You need a cover." Maaroufi: "What do you mean? God be with you." Khemais: "Did you understand me? You need a cover.
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The Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot was an al-Qaeda plan to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market ( Christkindelsmärik ) at the feet of Strasbourg Cathedral during the Christmas celebrations of 2000. It was prevented by French and German police.
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In December 2000, an al-Qaeda -linked plot to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market , at the feet of the Strasbourg Cathedral on New Year's Eve was discovered.The plot was foiled by French and German police after a terrorist network based in Frankfurt , Germany, the " Frankfurt group ", was unravelled.A total of fourteen people were convicted as part of the plot; four in Germany and ten in France, including the operational leader, Mohammed Bensakhria ( a.k.a."Meliani"), thought to be a European deputy to Osama bin Laden .The alleged mastermind of the plot was thought to have been Abu Doha , who was detained in the United Kingdom .
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Foiled bombing plot in France In December 2000, an al-Qaeda -linked plot to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market , at the feet of the Strasbourg Cathedral , on New Year's Eve was discovered. The plot was foiled by French and German police after a terrorist network based in Frankfurt , Germany, the " Frankfurt group ", was unravelled. A total of fourteen people were convicted as part of the plot; four in Germany and ten in France, including the operational leader, Mohammed Bensakhria ( a.k.a. "Meliani"), thought to be a European deputy to Osama bin Laden . The alleged mastermind of the plot was thought to have been Abu Doha , who was detained in the United Kingdom .
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