Swiss court acquits 7 of terror charges

[Scurrilous]

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"A court acquitted seven men Wednesday of providing logistical support to a Saudi terror cell in the first Swiss trial of alleged al-Qaida associates.

The accused were among 10 people arrested in Switzerland in early 2004 in connection with attacks the previous year on foreigners' residential compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed 35 people.

Swiss authorities had said the men — Yemenis, a Somali and an Iraqi — did not appear to be directly linked to the attack but alleged that they provided logistical support for future attacks.

Prosecutors argued that two of the men — who were not identified because of Swiss privacy laws — had direct links with the al-Qaida-affiliated group that carried out the Riyadh attacks. They said another was allegedly linked with those responsible for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the port at Aden, Yemen, in which 17 American sailors were killed.

The charges against the seven included forgery, bribery and fraud, but the Swiss Federal Criminal Court only returned a guilty verdict for six of the suspects for immigration offenses."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_terror_trial

[Ghost Dog]

1. Yup. Real evidence required in Swiss courts,

(and, observe, possibly, eventually, in Spanish ones too.)