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Monday, February:
THE BATTALION
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Trial begins for four accused
of bombing U.S. embassies
NEW YORK (AP) — His hair
and beard are wild and woolly, his
eyes dark and hollow, his frame
bony. Though 40, he claims he’s a
college freshman living in the 1970s
and can’t remember his wife and
children. He managed a tire shop in
Texas suburbia but has .trotted the
globe, with stops in Somalia, Pak
istan and Afghanistan.
Meet Wadih El-Hage — U.S. cit
izen and one of four men going on
trial Monday in the bombings of two
U.S. embassies in Africa.
Prosecutors say El-Hage was a
personal secretary to wealthy Saudi
exile Osama bin Laden, the alleged
engineer of the attacks that killed 224
people, including 12 Americans, in
Kenya and Tanzania. If convicted, he
could face life in prison.
Besides El-Hage, the other de
fendants include Mohamed Sadeek
Odeh, 35, of Jordan who allegedly
told investigators that shortly be
fore the bombing he had met with
an explosives expert who led a
Kenyan terrorism cell. He also
faces a potential life sentence if
convicted.
Two others — Mohamed Rashed
Daoud Al-'Owhali, 24, of Saudi Ara
bia and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed,
27, of Tanzania — could be sen
tenced to death.
All the defendants have been por
trayed as militants willing to go to
any extreme to carry out bin Laden’s
holy war, or jihad, against the “ene
mies of God.’’
But El-Hage stands apart.
For one, he is the only U.S. citizen
among the defendants. Former co
workers and neighbors in Arlington,
Texas, described him as a hard-work
ing family man.
He also has distinguished himself
since his 1998 arrest by complaining
loudly and constantly that he is an in
nocent victim of guilt-by-association,
jailhouse abuse and, most recently,
mental illness and amnesia. Frustrat
ed by conditions in
a federal lock-up,
he jumped up in
court last summer
and dashed at U.S.
District Judge
Leonard Sand be
produced a copy of a ramblit:
handwritten letter in which El-Ha
told his wife he didn’t know hen
asked if she was “part of the gal
that is being played on meandot
er foreign students. ... I wasl
napped from my school and brougj
here against my will.”
But prosecutors portray El-H
as a calculating malingerer win
U.S. citizenship only made himirt:
dangerous.
Building a federal fortress
fore being tackled
by federal marshals.
Sand ordered
El-Hage to under
go psychological
examinations after
defense attorneys
told him that more
than two years of
solitary confine
ment and strip
searches- had left
their’client too dis
tressed and disori
ented to aid in his
own defense.
To back up
claims he had no
memory of his life
past his first year
in college, they
Bracing itself for the trial of the United States vs.
Osama bin Laden for charges connected to the
bombing ot two American embassies in Africa,
security has been tightened in and around the
U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown New
York. Here is a look at how.
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burled four feet deep
and rising four feet
above ground, stretch
across the front. The
company that makes
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stop a vehicle moving
at 50 mph.
Steel booths with bulletproof wi
Cameras with night vision have beer
hidden with tenses so strong they can r
newsprint from s block away.
Armed guards with hidden weapon
patrol the perimeter around the dock.
Dogs trained to detect explosives
around the courtroom.
Metal detectors screen everyone.
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President meets with Democrats
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FARMINGTON, Pa. (AP) — President Bush said he
got a cordial hearing from skeptical Democratic law
makers Sunday, but.will have to wait to gauge his suc
cess in winning any of them over to his
proposals for tax cuts and other matters
on his agenda.
“I think they listened,” Busji said
as he left the two-hour session, which
had been scheduled to last just over
an hour. “1 have no idea until the
votes come. They were very cordial.
These are professionals who want to
serve their nation.”
Bush spokesman Scott McClellan
said the president spoke for about eight minutes and spent
the rest of the time responding to questions. The meeting
was closed to the press. Approximately 300 people at
tended, about half of them Democratic House members.
“Hopefully we can exceed expectations,” Bush told
the Democrats, according to the spokesman. “The ex
pectation is, because of the closeness of the election,
nothing will get done.”
He said much of Bush’s remarks focused on improv
ing civility in Washington.
“I hope people can disagree in an agreeable way,” he
quoted the president as saying. “Bipartisanship is going to
require more than words to put forth good public policy.”
Bush added that he believes “the right thing to do is
to do what you said you were going to do,” according
to McClellan.
Echoing previous remarks to lawmakers,' the
spokesman said Bush told them he was concerned about
national debt but also about consumer debt, which he said
tax cuts could help alleviate.
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range of issues, including his tax plan, abortioni Th
election reform. I stron
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said “we ought to do something about it,” he quotedt:! soph
president as saying. I and r>
McClellan characterized the tone of the
“respectful” and said “there was a commitment®.^
sides to work together.”
The centerpiece of the Bush agenda is his prossi
10-year, $ 1.6 trillion tax cut, which he plans tosubfi®
Congress on Thursday.
“I’m feeling good,” Bush said as he and chiefofiii
Andrew Card strode into the Democratic gathering^
snow-covered Nemucolin Woodlands Resort and Si* 1
about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. Also at Bush'ssti
was his brother-in-law, Bobby Koch.
Bush said he was delivering a message to Democri
“about having a civil tone of discourse, (and) about:
agenda” that includes tax cuts, Social Security»
Medicare reform and improving schools.
“And I’m going to answer some questions. And thenf:
going to head on home and take a nap,” he said with asm
The president planned-to devote much of hisene:;
this week to building public support for the tax reductiot
On Monday, he was bringing to the White Housefe
families who would benefit from his proposed tax red'
tions because they would fall into lower tax brackets.
He has moved aggressively to win over lawmakers,f
pecially the Democrats who are suspicious of hispropou
Bush says the tax cut is necessary to stave off ait
cession, and many Democrats agree, though somett
lieve a smaller cut of less than $1 trillion over 10yea
is in order.
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News in Brief
Marine Corps jet
crashes, two dead
CHERRY POINT, N.C. (AP) — A
Marine Corps Harrier jet crashed
Saturday as it neared touchdown
on a base runway. The two crew
members were killed, a
spokesman said.
The jump-jet crashed while ap
proaching the runway about 4
p.m., said 1st Lt. John Caldwell,
spokesman at Cherry Point Ma
rine Corps Air Station. The jump-
jet design allows the Harrier to
take off and land vertically; it redi
rects its thrust to fly.
The Cherry Point station is
home to one Harrier training
squadron and three squadrons
that are deployed on missions
accompanying Marines from
nearby Camp Lejeune.
In 1999 and 2000, thf
Marines temporarily grounde:
their Harrier jets, as well as otiie
aircraft, due to safety concerns.
During the 2000 budget yea
30 deaths resulted from Marine
aviation accidents, including an
MV-22 Osprey crash in Arizonai:
April that killed 19 Marines and the
crash of a CH-46 Sea Knight hell
copter off the coast of San Diegc
in December 1999.
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