Court convicts Egyptian on terror charges

? An Egyptian man who is one of the chief suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings was sentenced to 10 years in jail Monday by an Italian court.

The court in Milan convicted Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, 35, and a co-defendant, Yahia Ragheh, 23, of subversive association aimed at international terrorism, a charge introduced in Italy after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The younger man was sentenced to five years.

Prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli had sought a 14-year sentence for Ahmed, who was accused of having ties with the terror cell that carried out the March 11, 2004, bombings on the Madrid commuter rail system and of trying to indoctrinate the younger man with a radical form of Islam after arriving in Italy in December 2003.

Romanelli identified Ragheh as a would-be suicide bomber, and demanded a seven-year sentence.