Saudi Bomb Suspect Reconsiders Plea

A Saudi suspect in a bombing that killed 19 U.S. service personnel a year ago in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is reconsidering a plea bargain under which he was to have told U.S. officials all he knows about the attack, a lawyer said. Proceedings were postponed until July 10 at the request of lawyers for the suspect, Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein Sayegh, who was deported to the U.S. from Canada on June 17. Calling the case “unusual and complex,” a federal judge agreed that a new court-appointed public defender, Francis Carter, needed time to prepare and familiarize Sayegh with his rights. “Certain fundamental principles of the American justice system are not in the ordinary experience of my client,” Carter told the court.