Lithuania woman acquitted of suicide bombing plot

Published April 4, 2014 10:39am ET



VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — An appeals court has acquitted a Lithuanian woman who was convicted by a lower court of plotting a suicide bombing against an undetermined Russian military target.

Egle Kusaite was arrested in 2009 on suspicion of links to radical Islamist groups, including Chechen militants, and sentenced to 10 months in prison in 2013 for engaging in terrorist activities.

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