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Turkey court upholds life sentences for Al-Qaeda attacks
 Ankara, June 10 (MIA) - Turkey's appeals court has upheld the life sentences of seven people over four deadly suicide bombings against Jewish and U.K. targets in Istanbul six years ago, AFP reported Wednesday.
Among the convicts was Syrian national Louai Sakka, accused of masterminding and providing the financing for the attacks, in which suicide bombers rammed explosives-laden trucks into two synagogues on Nov. 15, 2003, and the U.K. consulate and the U.K. bank HSBC Holdings PLC (HBC) five days later.
The remaining six are Turks jailed for organizing the bombings - the bloodiest terrorist attacks in Turkey - which claimed a total of 63 lives, among them the U.K. consul, left some 600 others injured and caused massive destruction.
Sakka - an alleged associate of the former Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi - had been arrested in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya in 2005 as part of a probe into an alleged plot to blow up an Israeli cruise ship carrying tourists to the city.
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