US judge dismisses charges against bin Laden

ishwaq

Minister (2k+ posts)
A US judge on Friday dismissed all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden, closing a 13-year court case against the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.


US District Court judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the bin Laden case in Manhattan federal court, issued an order called nolle prosequi, which means do not prosecute in Latin, a typical legal move once a defendant is deceased.
The court order came six weeks after US commandos killed bin Laden at his hideout in a compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, just north of Islamabad, Pakistan. US prosecutors in New York began prosecuting him in June 1998.
In a dozen indictments, prosecutors accused bin Laden of repeated actions against the United States that included prompting Somali tribesmen to attack US military personnel in Mogadishu in 1993 and the 1998 car bomb attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Bin Laden was never formally charged with the Sept 11, 2001 attacks that killed almost 3,000 people and put the United States on a decade-long war footing with militants.
The judges order was issued following a formal request by the US Justice Department to dismiss charges against bin Laden.
The request included an affidavit by a senior justice department official describing the May 1 military raid on bin Ladens hideout. The affidavit, dated June 16, said that bin Ladens death was confirmed by DNA testing. It also said one of bin Ladens wives identified the corpse as her husbands.
Reuters
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jahanzaibi

Senator (1k+ posts)
abb un ka kia hoo ga jo is taliban ko terrorist kehtay thay.. America nay un ka deen aur dunya donno kharab kar dia.
koi nai game start hoonay walli hay