LEBANON - June 16 - Case Against Bin Laden Followers Opened.29 alleged followers followers see dairy herd. of terror suspect, Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. , go on trial in Lebanon on charges of planning terrorist attacks in Jordan. (The trial coincides with one of 28 terror suspects in Jordan who are alleged to belong to a group associated with Bin Laden. They are charged with planning to attack US and Israeli tourists during New Year's celebrations in Jordan.) In Lebanon, only 9 of the suspects appear in the military court. The nine plead plead v. 1) in civil lawsuits and petitions, the filing of any document (pleading) including complaints, petitions, declarations, motions, and memoranda of points and authorities. innocent after which the court quickly adjourns until June 30 at defence counsel's request. The other suspects 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 . The suspects are accused of conspiring to carry out terrorist acts and possessing weapons and detonators with the intent to use them in the attacks. The charge sheet also alleges the group was involved in circulating counterfeit To falsify, deceive, or defraud. A copy or imitation of something that is intended to be taken as authentic and genuine in order to deceive another. A counterfeit coin is one that may pass for a genuine coin and may include a lower denomination coin altered so that it may money and forging passports. The indictment says the accused were followers of Bin Laden, the Saudi-born millionaire wanted for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (The bombings killed 244 people.) Those charged include Egyptians, Syrians and Lebanese, but court documents give no breakdown of the nationalities. |
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