It’s Liberty vs. Security in Spanish Terror Trial
Spaniards call it a mega-trial, for its size and potential reach. Twenty-four defendants. One hundred thousand pages of evidence. A prosecutor demanding prison sentences totaling many lifetimes. The men in the dock — almost all of them Muslim immigrants — profess their innocence. Europe’s biggest trial to date of alleged Al Qaeda sympathizers has adjourned to await a verdict. Yet after enormous publicity surrounding the case involving the Sept. 11 attacks, critics contend that the prosecution is fatally flawed and conviction is not at all certain.Full Story