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September 09, 2008
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Tuesday
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Ramazan 8, 1429
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Canadian judge gives go-ahead to terror trial
OTTAWA, Sept 8: A judge has rejected a plea to toss out terrorism charges against a Canadian man accused of participating in a plot to bomb British targets in 2004.
Momin Khawaja, a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen, is accused of collaborating with a group of British Muslims, also of Pakistani descent, in a thwarted plan to bomb British buildings and natural gas grids.
Khawaja has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of financing and facilitating terrorism.
Defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon argued last month that the prosecution hadn’t produced enough evidence to substantiate the British bomb-plot allegations against Khawaja.
Justice Douglas Rutherford ruled on Monday that the prosecution had presented enough evidence for Khawaja’s trial to continue.—AP
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