Defendant in Terrorism Trial Linked to Hit List
Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were on a hit list of one of the 12 defendants charged with plotting a war of urban terrorism in the United States, prosecutors say.
A letter from prosecutors to the defense, made public Friday, details the government’s plan to introduce evidence from many crimes for which the defendants were not charged. Prosecutors sent the letter because they are required to notify the defense what evidence they plan to show.
The letter also established a closer link between four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993 and those now on trial for seditious conspiracy.
The letter said the fingerprints of the man who helped build the bomb and rented the van that carried it into the trade center were found on a diagram of a planned armored car robbery found on El Sayyid A. Nosair in 1990.
Nosair, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 others are accused of plotting a widespread bombing spree.
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