Bin Laden, Five Others Charged in Bomb Plot
Indian investigators have charged suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and five others with planning to bomb the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, police said.
The charges--filed in a New Delhi court Aug. 14 and reported Friday in the Times of India newspaper--are based on statements by two men arrested June 14 on charges of possessing explosives, police official Rajbir Singh said.
Four of the five suspected conspirators were being held in the capital’s Tihar jail.
The fifth man, Abdul Rehman Al Safani of Yemen, has fled India, police said. Bin Laden lives in Afghanistan. U.S. Embassy officials declined to comment.
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