Pakistan

US drops charges against Bin Laden

Charges included more than 200 counts of criminal activity.

Afp June 18, 2011

NEW YORK: Federal prosecutors dropped charges against Osama bin Laden from attacks spanning more than a decade, officials said in court papers filed in US District Court in New York Friday.

Charges included more than 200 counts of criminal activity such as murder, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against civilians and more.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan approved the request, which is a common procedure when the defendant dies.

The charges included Bin Laden's role in the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

None of the charges were related to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.

The court papers filed on Friday included a statement from a Justice Department official declaring detailed evidence that Bin Laden was killed by US forces in a raid on May 2 in Pakistan.

The statement said DNA samples, facial recognition analysis and the confirmation of one of Bin Laden's wives all confirmed the identity of the al Qaeda leader.

"These tests confirmed that the sample from the Abbottabad raid genetically matched the derived comprehensive DNA profile" for Bin Laden, the official wrote in the statement. "The possibility of a mistaken identification is approximately one in 11.8 quadrillion."

COMMENTS (8)

Bourne | 13 years ago | Reply Now he can enjoy his retirement at Hawaii with his 401K ... the American dream

Mirza | 13 years ago | Reply @abdul jabbar: @shahid khattak: Fully agree. Could not have said it better myself. Regards, Mirza

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Adil | 13 years ago | Reply @Genius: Agree!! That's the reason why intetllects like Zakir naik openly calls USA the greatest terrorist on the planet...and these cowards ban his entry rather than giving the gentleman a chance to explain his point....Freedom of expression, my @s$ Americans are a nation which doesn't know its own blood stained history.

Genius | 13 years ago | Reply How many miles long would be the charges of crimes, murders, mass murders, launching campaign of deaths and destructions on hapless helpless unarmed innocent people in very many parts of the world including the native Americans by the crooks and criminals who rule over the decent, hard working, caring, tax paying people of the USA?

Haseena | 13 years ago | Reply After death, God levels charges in His court

charlie | 13 years ago | Reply Mr. Shahid Khattak is among those people who think Osama wasn't part of US big game

abdul jabbar | 13 years ago | Reply @shahid khattak: yup,i remember the disgraceful conduct of the men in black when they showered rose petals on that deranged religious lunatic,qadri.how these men who were supposed to protect law were screaming in favour of a killer i don't understand.The government should have disbarred them and have their licenses cancelled.such love and affection for a cold blooded murderer shows how low our society has fallen. The murder of salman taseer shaheed and the celebration of it by the islamic fascists has been an eye opener for a lot of us regarding the type of society we live in today.

shahid khattak | 13 years ago | Reply bin laden is dead but his hatefilled bigoted religious ideology lives on.We all saw how in all our major cities funeral prayers for this terrorist were held in large numbers.Even the lawyers held funeral prayers for this mass murderer which just goes onto show the infiltration of islamic fascism within our legal community. Instead of denouncing and condemning this islamic terrorist our public is holding prayer sessions for him!!

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