Lebanese man jailed for German bomb plot
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Lebanese man was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday for last year’s failed attempt to bomb German trains but three other defendants were acquitted, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said.
The four were charged with planting crude bombs on two trains at the Cologne station on July 31, 2006.
The bombs, found later, failed to explode because of faulty detonators.
Jihad Hamad was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in jail at hard labor, the officials and defense lawyer Fawaz Zakariya said.
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