Alleged bomb plotters on trial in France
Ten suspected terrorists, including a man prosecutors claim is a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, stand trial in Paris today for a foiled plot to bomb the famed Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on New Year’s Eve 2000.
Four of the men allegedly trained in the use of arms and explosives in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s. They and their six alleged accomplices are accused of being members of the so-called “Frankfurt group” - named for the German city where the bomb plot was hatched.
