A German court has upheld the conviction of three Iraqis who were sentenced last year for plotting in 2004 to kill Ayad Allawi, then Iraq's prime minister.
The Federal Court of Justice said Monday it rejected the men's appeals in a Sept. 22 ruling.
They had been convicted by the Stuttgart state court in July 2008 of attempted participation in murder and membership in the terror organization Ansar al-Islam, which is linked to al-Qaida.
Judges said they had planned to attack Allawi at a 2004 business forum in Berlin. A few weeks …
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