**Four Islamic militants have been convicted in a German court of plotting to attack US targets in the country.**The four, two of whom were German-born converts to Islam, were given sentences of between five and 12 years.
A court in Duesseldorf heard they planned to kill US diplomats, soldiers and civilians by bombing targets like the US Air Force’s Ramstein base.
They were accused of operating as a German cell of the radical Islamic Jihad Union.