Madrid, Spain - Two Sentenced For Tunisia Bombing Of Oldest Synagogue

Madrid, Spain - A Spanish court sentenced two men to a total of 10 years in prison on for their part in a suicide bombing in Tunisia in 2002 which killed 21 people, 14 of them German tourists. The court sentenced Ahmed Rukhsar, a 41-year-old Pakistani living in Spain, and Enrique Cerda Ibanez, a 43-year-old Spaniard, to five years each for collaboration with a terrorist organization.

A member of the Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy Places, a radical group linked to al Qaeda, drove a tanker truck filled with cooking gas to a synagogue before detonating the truck, court documents said. The blast on the Tunisian island of Djerba destroyed North Africa's oldest synagogue and also killed five Tunisians and two Frenchmen.