France Jails 4 Members of Islamist Group

A French court has sentenced four men of North African origin to prison terms for taking part in recruiting Islamicists to join the war in Iraq. The men recruited members in the south of France, in the city of Montpellier. Hamid Bach, a 38-year-old Moroccan, was sentenced to six years in prison for criminal conspiracy with a terrorist group. Bach was arrested in July 2005 when police found Islamist literature, chemical substances and lists of contacts at his residence in Montpellier. While Bach stated that he supported the notion of a holy war, he did not confirm allegations of a planned attack on European soil. Two other men of Moroccan-origin and one Franco-Algerian were convicted of similar charges. The three men were sentenced to between two and four years in jail.

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