US judge denies retrial of bin Laden aide
AFP, November, 2005
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NEW YORK (AFP) — A US federal judge denied a retrial to an aide of Osama bin Laden, but slammed the government and US marshals for "incompetence and stonewalling" in their handling of the case.
Wadih el-Hage, born in Lebanon and a naturalized US citizen, is currently serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2001 of conspiracy and terrorism charges stemming from the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
His lawyers had sought a retrial, partly on the grounds that US marshals had failed to turn over interviews that they had secretly taped with an al-Qaeda operative and a prosecution witness in the case, Jamal al-Fadl.
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Al-Fadl had identified El-Hage in court and testified that he was on the organisation's payroll.
In a scathing, 109-page decision, District Court ...
