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Times Thu, Nov 01, 2007 - Page 6　News List  Three convicted of
mass murder for Madrid bombings   Three lead defendants in the
2004 Madrid train bombings were convicted of mass murder and
other charges yesterday, but another accused ringleader was
acquitted in the culmination of a politically divisive trial
over Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.  Four other prime
suspects received lesser sentences as Judge Javier Gomez
Bermudez read out the verdicts in a hushed courtroom. There was
heavy security outside, including bomb-sniffing dogs and police
helicopters.  The backpack bomb attacks killed 191 people and
wounded more than 1,800 on March 11, 2004.  The three lead
suspects were each handed sentences that stretched into the tens
of thousands of years. They include Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan
convicted of placing at least one bomb on one of the trains,
Emilio Suarez Trashorras, a Spaniard who is a former miner found
guilty of supplying the explosives