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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Apparently, Hani Al-Sayegh would rather take his chances with the U.S. judicial system than risk possible execution in Saudi Arabia. The suspect in the July 1996 Khobar towers bombing that killed 19 U.S. airmen abruptly dismissed a tentative plea bargain agreement today, pleading not guilty to charges he was an accomplice in the attack. Al-Sayegh had agreed to tell investigators all he knew about the bombing in return for being indicted on one conspiracy count. Although neither side is talking, the speculation is that talks broke down late Monday over the government's refusal to guarantee...
...Force generals in connection with the Khobar Towers bombing. Fogleman, a highly decorated Vietnam War pilot and the 16th Air Force chief of staff, had said he would resign if Cohen held the generals accountable for failing to prevent the June 1996 terrorist blast which killed 19 U.S. airmen. Air Force officials said Fogleman's decision to resign was linked to the defense secretary's anticipated decision, which is expected later this week. Fogleman told his top staff he requested retirement for the good of the Air Force. If his petition is granted by Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Lawyers for suspected Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh say their client will cooperate with U.S. officials in their investigation of last year's Dhahran, Saudi Arabia bombing. U.S. officials believe Sayegh drove the look-out car during the June 1996 attack that killed 19 U.S. Airmen and injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop...
...seven people including five U.S. advisers. Chop-chop square is also likely to be the destination of some if not all of the 40 suspects the Saudis now have in custody for last June's Khobar Towers bombing near Dhahran, a blast that took the lives of 19 U.S. airmen. Chop-chop makes fast work of sticky problems...
CLEARED. TERRYL SCHWALIER, Air Force brigadier general in charge of a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia where 19 U.S. airmen were killed in a truck bombing in June; of any culpability in the blast; in Washington...