I heard this on the radio yesterday and meant to note it here. A French court gave the maximum sentence to the ringleader of a terror cell responsible for killing 45 people in Morocco. This was presented as a harsh ruling. The maximum sentence! Well, you know what that is? 10 years. Meanwhile, others in the group got less, including a one year suspended sentence. I’m sure Andy McCarthy can provide details, but I could’ve sworn that in the U.S. at least if you conspire with murderers, provide support for murderers and in all other ways enable murderers, that the law sorta kinda sees you as a like, y’know, a murderer. Anyway, from the AP:

PARIS: A Paris court on Wednesday convicted eight people of providing logistical and financial support to suicide bombers who blew themselves up in 2003 at five sites in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, killing 45 people.
Sentences ranged from a one-year suspended sentence to 10 years in prison.
All eight were found guilty of “criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterprise,” a charge often used in France so that investigators, and prosecutors, can make a wide sweep in the search for terrorists or their accomplices.
The courtroom, full of family members, erupted in anger when the verdicts were announced. There were cries of “there is no justice.”
The man who allegedly served as chief of the group, Mustapha Baouchi, received a 10-year prison sentence to be followed by his expulsion from France and a ban on his return. Baouchi allegedly underwent explosives training in camps in Afghanistan.
Most of the suspects are thought to have been in contact with Noureddine Nafia, a member of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, or GICM, a terrorist group believed to be linked to the Casablanca attacks. Nafia is serving a 20-year sentence in a Moroccan prison for the attacks, which left the 12 suicide bombers among the dead.
All of those convicted were born in France or moved here as small children. They were arrested in April 2004.
Three French citizens were among those killed in the bombings on May 16, 2003, enabling anti-terror investigators to open an investigation.