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New Trade Center Bomb Trial Nixed
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge has rejected a bid for a new trial by the first four
men convicted in the World Trade Center bombing, rejecting claims that new
evidence had surfaced and saying the men were well represented.
In a 165-page ruling released Monday, U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy turned
aside every argument raised by lawyers handling the appeals of Mohammad
Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmoud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj.
A federal appeals court had denied the men's appeals last year, saying they
got a fair trail. Earlier this year, the four were back in court, claiming
new evidence had surfaced to warrant a new trial and that the lawyers who
represented them were incompetent.
``I am convinced that the defendants received an extraordinarily fair trial
and were convicted on the basis of overwhelming evidence of their guilt,''
Duffy said.
``It is clear not only that the defendants have failed to come forward with
any newly discovered evidence to support their motions, but also that they
have failed to show that they were denied the effective assistance of
counsel,'' he added.
The six-month trial that ended in 1994 resulted in the conviction of all four
men on conspiracy charges in the Feb. 26, 1993, attack that killed six people
and injured more than 1,000 others.
The terrorist attack was meant to force the United States to curb its support
for Israel and to stay out of the Middle East. Instead, it resulted in a
heightening of security at public buildings across the country and increased
attention given to the threat of terrorism throughout the U.S. government.
All four defendants were sent to prison for life by Duffy, who later presided
over a second trial that resulted in the conviction of the bombing's
mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, and another accomplice, Eyad Ismoil. Those two men
also received life sentences.
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As reported by The New York Times (10/28/93) and
CNN, Mr Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian Army offi-
cer, was used by the FBI to infiltrate the terrorists
later charged in the Trade Center bombing. The original
plan told to Mr Salem was that his job was to see to it
that fake explosives were used, then the bombers would
be busted for planting what they thought was a real bomb
with no possibility of anybody getting hurt. A good plan.
Mr Salem secretly taperecorded hundreds of hours of his
telephonic communications with authorities without their
knowledge.
The recordings reveal that the FBI changed the original
plan and told Mr. Salem NOT to use the fake explosives
but to use REAL explosives. The FBI agent who told him
to use real explosives was adamant about this. I saw and
heard this on CNN in '93 and could not believe my eyes
and ears, I thought, "We'll never hear the end of this."
Boy was I wrong, it totally disappeared. Alas, there is
an excerpt of some of this that was printed in The New
York Times (10/28/93) available at:
http://www.netwrk2000.com/okbomnws.html
While these recordings were played in preliminary court
hearings, they were barred from the actual trial because
Mr Salem made them without the permission of the FBI agents.
The government can bug you without your permission, but the
opposite is not also true -- that's tyranny. The tapes ex-
ist, and they prove that the FBI de facto orchestrated the
bombing of the World Trade Center, an act that would result
in massive new police powers for the FBI. However, because
the tapes were barred from court, the media simply pretends
they don't exist and the truth is forever nullified from
the official GovtMedia story, exiled to the dark allies
of seedy conspiracy theory.
They say that tens of thousands would have died if the
truck-bomb had been able to park in the spot the bombers
had reserved, right next to a key column, but when they
got there a car had taken their spot. I'd like to think
someone knew about this and parked the car there to save
the lives of thousands of people.
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