Ex-Italian imam jailed for suicide attacks

Abdelmajid Zergout, an imam who preached in Italy, was jailed for 5 years in Morroco for his role in several deadly suicide attacks in 2003.

Only 5 years?? Slap on the wristAKI

Rabat, 30 Jan. (AKI) - The former imam of the northern Italian city of Varese, Abdelmajid Zergout, has been sentenced to five years in prison for a series of suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca in 2003.

Forty-five people were killed - including 12 suicide bombers - in several attacks which occurred in the Moroccan city in May 2003. The bombings were the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country's history.[...]

According to media reports, prosecutors had been seeking a 30-year sentence during the trial that took place in Rabat.