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Six months later, a suicide bomber blew herself up outside another station, killing
10 people. Both attacks were blamed on Chechen rebels.
In February, at least 20 insurgents were killed in an operation by troops in Ingushetia.
Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov warned in February that “the zone of military
operations will be extended to the territory of Russia... the war is coming to their cities”.
Last November, he said his Caucasian Mujahadeen had carried out a bombing that killed
26 people on board an express train travelling from Moscow to Russia's second city of St Petersburg.
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FIVE SYDNEY TERROR ATTACK PLOTTERS SENTENCED
Monday, 15 February 2010
Five men convicted of a terrorist conspiracy in the Australian city of Sydney have
been handed jail sentences of between 23 and 28 years.
The men were found guilty last year of charges such as possessing bomb-making
instructions and explosives chemicals.
Prosecutors said they were plotting violent jihadist attacks in protest at Australia's
involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The men cannot be named for legal reasons.
The exact details of the plot and the men's intended targets have never been specified,
but their trial was the longest in Australian history.
Justice Anthony Whealy of the New South Wales Supreme Court, who passed
sentence, said they had been motivated by “intolerant, inflexible religious conviction”.
They had shown contempt for the Australian government, its leaders and laws, he said.
Some of the men were reported to have smiled in court as the sentences were handed down.
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