Last month [June 2002], the Interior Ministry [of Sudan] announced a suspected al-Qaida leader claiming to have fired a missile at a U.S. warplane at a Saudi air base had been handed over to Saudi Arabia for trial. --- "Sudanese Man Convicrted for Spying to US" AP via COMTEX, 21 July 2002 , http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/719882/posts