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In a hasty trial behind closed doors, two Hamas militants were convicted Monday and sentenced to 15 years in prison at hard labor for building bombs that killed 26 people in Jerusalem. Jasser Samara and Nassim Abu Rous were arrested Wednesday, two days after Palestinian intelligence uncovered 1,500 pounds of explosive materials in the West Bank city of Nablus. A senior Palestinian intelligence official said the men recruited the five suicide bombers who carried out last summer’s attacks in Israel. The trial and sentencing was completed in less than three hours in a special security court in Jericho.
