Judge Issues Rulings in Bombing Trial
A federal judge refused to drop charges against four Osama bin Laden followers accused in the Saudi dissident’s plot to kill Americans but did dismiss allegations that two of them were linked to the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania.
The rulings by U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand mean defense lawyers will begin their presentation, expected to last about three weeks, as soon as Monday. The government presented more than 80 witnesses over about two months.
The trial in New York City, originally expected to last through the summer and possibly into the fall, will conclude much sooner because the government called substantially fewer witnesses.
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