A Spanish court on Monday sentenced an Algerian to 10 years in prison for trying to set up websites for al-Qaida.

Ahmed Brahim, who was arrested in April 2002 in Spain, tried to create web pages for the extremist group to publicize its ideas, according to the National Court of Spain.

The court said that Brahim, before he was arrested, had begun setting up a web page for "spreading the most radical and extremist ideas of Islam, those which promote the jihad as part of the war against all those who do not share their beliefs."

As part of preparations for setting up the web sites, Brahim held meetings with several al-Qaida suspects in the late 1990s to discuss his web site plan, according to the court.

He was allegedly given some 22 CDs from Salman al-Ouda, a close ally of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden. The CDs contained material calling for holy war against Jews and the United States, the sentence read.

Source: Xinhua