Osama’s former minder jailed
However, he received less than half of the maximum term after giving what prosecutors said was valuable testimony about al-Qaida A Duesseldorf state court found Shadi Abdellah, 27, guilty of membership to a terrorist organisation and falsifying passports. He had faced a possible maximum term of 10 years.
Abdellah, who testified he once briefly served as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, was one of nine alleged members of the Al Tawhid group arrested in Germany in April 2002 on suspicion of plotting imminent terror attacks in the country.
