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Germany jails Lebanese for life over train bomb attempt

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A German court Tuesday gave a life-imprisonment sentence to a Lebanese man who planted bombs on two trains that would have caused mass carnage if they had exploded. Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24, was convicted by the court in Dusseldorf of multiple attempted murder. His accomplice, Jihad Hamad, was convicted at a separate trial in Lebanon…

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Terrorism suspect insists bomb in Germany was hoax

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A Lebanese student accused of planting a bomb on a German train pleaded his innocence before a German court Tuesday, saying that the gas-filled device in his possession was only meant to scare. “I swear by God almighty that I had no intention of killing anybody,” said Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24. “I knew when I…

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