(4 Feb 1999) Arabic/Nat
VOICED BY: Vera Frankl
The trial of 107 Muslim militants, who are alleged members of the outlawed Jihad movement, continued in Cairo on Thursday.
It is the first day that the defendants appeared in court.
Sixty-two of the defendants, including Ayman el-Zawahri, reportedly the right-hand-man of Osama bin Laden - the Saudi millionaire that the United States suspect to be behind the deadly 1998 bombings of the U-S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania - are being tried in absentia.
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It's the first time the suspects have appeared before the military court.
They're just some of 107 people being tried on charges ranging from forgery to conspiring to topple the government.
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The spectators heard from this suspect, that the United States would not go unpunished for bombarding Iraq.
(0.24) UPSOT suspect speaking in Arabic.
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The Arab nation, he says, will face up to both America, its deadly enemy and to Israel.
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The defendants include suspected members of the outlawed Jihad movement.
Sixty-two of them are being tried in their absence. Among them - Ayman el-Zawahr - who's reportedly Osama bin Laden's right-hand man.
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There's no evidence at all in this trial, says the suspects' lawyer. I personally that it's Al Jihad in the dock, because it has refused to end the use of violence.
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Jihad is one of the main militant groups which has opposed the Egyptian government and sought to establish a strict Islamic state.
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