Hamas Bomb Maker Gets 67 Life Terms
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An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian militant to 67 terms of life imprisonment for preparing bombs -- in belts, a computer case and a guitar case -- that killed dozens of people.
The court said Abdullah Barghouthi of the Hamas group confessed and “boasted he had trained dozens of ‘engineers’ who he hoped would carry out even more deadly attacks.”
Among the attacks Israeli authorities linked to Barghouthi was an August 2001 Jerusalem suicide bombing in which the attacker carried the explosive in a guitar case into a Sbarro pizzeria. Fifteen people were killed along with the bomber.
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