Posted on 11/01/2001 11:38:59 AM PST by Pericles
Thursday November 1 2:32 PM ET
Indictment Made in Hijack Case
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Pictures of Osama bin Laden and videotapes about martyrs were found in the car and apartment of a college student from Jordan who knew two hijackers of the airliner that hit the Pentagon, prosecutors said in an indictment Thursday.
The indictment against Osama Awadallah, 21, was handed up in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where two perjury counts were brought against Awadallah last month.
According to the indictment, a search of Awadallah's car after he was taken into custody in September produced videotapes titled ``Martyrs of Bosnia,'' ``Bosnia 1993'' and ``The Koran v. the Bible, Which is God's Word?''
A search of Awadallah's apartment yielded computer-generated photographs of bin Laden, the indictment said.
Awadallah, 21, is a student at Grossmont College in La Mesa, Calif., near San Diego.
The indictment, returned late Wednesday and made public Thursday, charges Awadallah with two counts of perjury for allegedly lying about his association with hijackers Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar. The two have been identified by federal authorities as the hijackers of the airliner that hit the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
The indictment said a search of a car registered to Al-Hazmi produced a piece of paper on which was written ``OSAMA'' and a seven-digit phone number.
Prosecutors said the investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, killing thousands of people, revealed that the seven-digit number, combined with the 619 area code used in the San Diego area, was a former telephone number assigned to Awadallah.
The telephone number found in the Al-Hazmi vehicle at the Dulles Airport in Virginia was mentioned when Awadallah made an initial court appearance after he was charged last month.
At the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robin Baker said Awadallah, ``by lying to the grand jury ... promoted terrorism.''
His lawyer, Jesse Berman, said he could not immediately comment Thursday.
Last month, Berman said his client had ``nothing to do with the terrible things that happened on Sept. 11.'' He said Awadallah, having identified one hijacker, had no reason to lie about another. ``He just wasn't sure on that name.''
Prosecutors said Awadallah identified Al-Hazmi in photographs during testimony Oct. 10, saying he saw him 35 to 40 times in the San Diego area between April 2000 and last January.
Let me see, given a choice between the support of a past ally who shares the same basic concepts and values as myself or the support of a past enemy who's views and out look on the world is completely alien and barbaric, who should I choose?
Loved the picture of the turk soldiers sodimising each other in the air. I hear that's a tradition in turkey...Why, you ever been there?
I extend that invitation for a cup of tea, only one cup. You accept? Just name the town and I can be there in the spring when I visit Serbia.I would accept, only I still need to live another ten years until my youngest child is college age. Then maybe, when my dependents have grown, I'll let you murder me and dump my body in a lime pit..
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