Friday, December 20, 2013

U.S. court to postpone the trial of the Libyan December


Libyan through his lawyer for deeply disturbed by the arrest and blindfolded in front of his house (the island)
U.S. court has postponed the trial of the Libyan leader Abu Anas al-Qaeda to the twelfth of December / December next after his lawyer requested a deadline of six months to study the case papers.
During the trial, the lawyer Bernard Clement insisted on the deadline for the preparation of his defense of the Abu Anas Libyan accused of masterminding the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
It was Clement had said earlier that his client time - which Washington accuses of involvement in the attacks on the embassies in East Africa in 1998 - in good health, but he was angry for the way in which their families.
He stressed that the Libyan Kleinman infected with the hepatitis C virus has started a strike to protest against his arrest, said at a hearing in federal court area of ​​Manhattan in New York, "he (Abu Anas al-Libi) disturbed by the arrest and blindfolded in front of his house and at gunpoint."
The Libyan had been arrested on the fifth of October / October in front of his house in Tripoli in Libya and transferred to a U.S. warship in the Mediterranean Sea has been questioned. And led the U.S. raid to capture the Libyan demonstrations in Libya to protest against the entry of foreign troops into the country and the arrest of a Libyan citizen.
Demonstration in Benghazi demanding the release of the Libyan (island)
The United States has accused Libyan involvement in the bombing of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, an attack that killed 224 people, including a number of Americans.
He denied Libyan in front of the U.S. Court trying him the charges against him and claimed that he was not guilty in response to a question, the judges his opinion on the charges against him. He was appointed to the Libby lawyers two Americans.
Kleinman was chosen lawyer to represent Libya due to the presence of his previous experience in this area, it was defended by about Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of plotting to attack the World Trade Center in New York in 1993.
Has been approved by the Libyan-old 49-year-old to be a lawyer, Kleinman, and confirmed by the court. However, Kleinman refused to answer reporters' questions about who paid his wages.
The U.S. authorities had informed Judge Lewis Kaplan of the prosecution during the year, they want to combine the trial of other defendants in addition to the two Libyan Khalid Fawwaz and Adel Abdul-Bari, but Judge Kaplan ruled out the possibility of incorporating other issues, the issue of Libyan visible in front of him at the moment.
And the claim that the evidence against the Libyan include CDs and DVDs, documents consist of more than 270 thousand pages, in addition to a voluntary confession of the accused includes convict him.
The U.S. is facing prosecution in general a number of objections to the trial of members of al-Qaeda or its associated civilian courts, has called for a number of Republican lawmakers to send Americans to the Libyan prison Guantanamo .
The prosecution in the New York area have failed in the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan being the mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers in the same area.
It is worth mentioning that the Manhattan witnessed by the trials of accused of "terrorism" such as Ramzi Yousef and the blind Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
Source: Agencies

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