Terrorist Recruiter Gets Prison

(Madrid, Spain) A Moroccan man, 29-year-old Faiçal Errai, has been sentenced by Spain's High Court to six years in prison for operating websites to recruit Islamist terrorists for Ansar Al Mujahideen, a group linked to Al-Qaeda.

In its ruling, the High Court said Errai ran pro-jihad internet forums and websites which recruited terrorists “to kill or set themselves alight or carry out suicide attacks in conflicts in northern Africa and south-west Asia," according to Spanish media reports.

But while the court was able to show Errai had — from his home in the popular coastal holiday spot of Denia — "been at the disposition of Ansar Al Mujahideen on a permanent basis", Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska said there was no proof Errai was "an integral part of the network".

Because he didn't actually blow something up, Faiçal Errai is considered to be working with terrorists and not a terrorist himself. Therefore, he was treated leniently.