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LEAD: Life sentence for man guilty of US soldier killings
Feb 10, 2012, 13:30 GMT
Frankfurt - A Kosovo-born man was sentenced by a German court on Friday to life imprisonment for the killing last year of two US soldiers at Frankfurt airport.
Arid Uka was also convicted on three counts of attempted murder.
The 22-year-old had boarded a bus carrying US soldiers at Frankfurt airport in March and began shooting. He was only prevented from killing more when his pistol jammed and he was overpowered by the soldiers.
The attack has been called the first successful Islamist-motivated attack in Germany, though investigators said there was no evidence Uka was linked to any terrorist group.
Given the exceptional severity of the crime, the judge in Frankfurt said he would not be eligible for parole in 15 years, as would be usual.
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