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the public prosecutor of the Supreme Court (S.3) said that

"The evidence considered by the court ... is weak and inconsistent ... and does not fulfil the level of requirement that it must reasonably and necessarily meet to persuade and convince," the prosecutor said of the conspiracy conviction.
But also

Spanish prosecutor wants Sept 11 conviction quashed - International News - redOrbit

In a legal filing published on Thursday, the public prosecutor at the Supreme Court agreed with Yarkas that the conviction for conspiracy should be overturned but said the conviction for leading a terrorist group should remain intact.

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But the prosecutor said he did not agree with the arguments used by lawyers for Al Jazeera journalist Tayseer Alouni in their bid to overturn his seven-year sentence for collaborating with a terrorist group.

Which is substantially consistent with El Pais' account I translated elsewhere on this thread.
Regarding Alouni, [the court] considered proven that he helped various Al Qaeda members, knowing that they were, "in order to obtain from these individuals exclusive and profitable informations" on the organization.


En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 4th, 2009 at 05:11:03 AM EST
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