ARABS-US - Jan. 3 - Bomb Plot Trial Starting.The prosecution of an extremist network run by Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. starts in US District Court in Manhattan amid high security. This stems from charges against 22 defendants, including Bin Laden, indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. for killing American nationals abroad and for the bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing more than 200 people, including 12 Americans, and injuring thousands. Prosecutors allege To state, recite, assert, or charge the existence of particular facts in a Pleading or an indictment; to make an allegation. allege v. Bin Laden masterminded the blasts. The four men set for trial in Manhattan include one US citizen, Wadih Hage from Arlington, Texas Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. According to a U.S Census Bureau release, as of July 1, 2006 Arlington has an estimated population of 367,197. , and three foreign nationals who were arrested abroad: Khalfan Khamis Mohammed of Tanzania, Mohammed Saddiq Oden, a Jordanian-born Palestinian, and Mohammed Rashed Daoud Owhali of Yemen. Prosecutors and defence attorneys say jury selection alone could take more than a month. The trial could last from nine months to a year. |
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