[New York Times] Nicholas Kulish - Youssef Muhammad el-Hajdib, 24, was convicted on multiple counts of attempted murder and received a life sentence from a German court on Tuesday for leaving two suitcase bombs on commuter trains in Cologne in July 2006. The regional superior court in Dusseldorf agreed with prosecutors that Germany "never stood closer to an Islamist attack." "It was their explicit aim to kill as many nonbelievers as possible," said presiding judge Ottmar Breidling.
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