





He’s not with us!
Two suspects in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania may get a separate jury when they are tried along with terror-loving computer nerd Abu Anas al-Libi in Manhattan Federal Court next November.
The duo, al Qaeda operatives Adel Abdel Bary and Khalid al-Fawwaz, have been in custody since before the 9/11 attacks, but al-Libi, one of Osama bin Laden’s key henchmen, was only just captured by US Army Delta Forces on a Libyan street this October.
Fawwaz’s lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, told Manhattan federal judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday that any terror activity linked to al-Libi during his time on the lam could be introduced at trial — and taint them all.
“The world is a different place since [Fawwaz and Bary] went to jail,” Sternheim argued. “If you go and use the jury room … you can see the site of the World Trade Center.”
Kaplan refused to hold separate trials for the suspects but did say he would consider giving them two juries: one for the two men and another for al-Libi.
Under such a scenario, when possible prejudicial evidence is presented regarding al-Libi, the jury for Fawwaz and Bary could leave the courtroom.
“I will keep this [plan] in the back of my mind,” said Kaplan, adding he’s never used two juries for the same trial.
The three men are accused of planning the simultaneous US embassy bombings that left at least 244 people dead, including 12 Americans.
They attended court Thursday shackled and heavily guarded, each sporting blue prison jumpsuits and white kufi Muslim prayer caps.



