The Billiken's Bluff

A Spanish court on Monday sentenced a Syrian man to 27 years in prison for conspiring to commit the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and leading a cell of the terrorist network Al Qaeda in Madrid. The sentence is the only one to date in connection with the attacks.



The 27 year sentence fell short of prosecutors' goals. It actually fell 73,973 years short. Prosecutor's were seeking a sentence of more than 74,000 years for Mr. Yarkas, based on an estimated death toll of nearly 3,000 when hijacked jetliners were crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.

Think what kind of message that would have sent to terrorists. We won't execute you, we'll imprison you for 74 millennia!!!

That's nervous.