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A court in the Austrian capital Vienna sentenced the Islamic State disciple in connection with plans for two outrages.

The first involved inciting a 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy to target a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen. The child tried but failed to detonate an explosive belt at the market in 2016.

The second was a plot to use his 17-year-old wife to bomb the Ramstein Air Froce Base in Germany, America's biggest and most important military facility outside the USA.

The defendant, who is of Albanian descent, called the youngster who he coerced into the Ludwigshafen plot to testify on his behalf.