JORDAN - May 24 - Fugitive Suspected of Ties To Bin Laden Seized.Government officials say fugitive, Jamal Tahrawi, with alleged ties to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. was arrested on charges of planning terrorist attacks during New Year's celebrations. The arrest of Tahrawi in his Amman hide-out, on May 23, brings to 16 the number of Arab suspects in police detention for allegedly planning bombing attacks on US and Israeli tourists during New Year's celebrations in Jordan. Security officials say another 12 suspects remain at large. (They are being tried in absentia in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused in proceedings which began on Apr. 20.) A senior government official says Tahrawi, a Jordanian of Palestinian descent, was referred to a military prosecutor prosecutor Government attorney who presents the state's case against the defendant in a criminal prosecution. In some countries (France, Japan), public prosecution is carried out by a single office. In the U.S., states and counties have their own prosecutors. for interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. . The 28 defendants have been charged with possession of explosives and affiliation with "an outlawed group" involved in a "conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks" in Jordan. Lt. Col. Mahmoud Obeidat, the military prosecutor, has said the suspects were linked to a terrorist organisation headed by Bin Laden, who is wanted in the US for the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. In the last 4 weeks, state witnesses have testified that the defendants had stock-piled weapons, ammunition This article is largely based on the article in the out-of-copyright 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which was produced in 1911. It should be brought up to date to reflect subsequent history or scholarship (including the references, if any). , acid and detonators to use in bombing attacks in Jordan. The 15 defendants on trial have pleaded innocent to the terrorism charges and denied any links with Bin Laden. |
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