Bin Laden asked man to ram diplomatic plane in mid-air, court hears

An American man has told a US court that he was asked by Osama bin Laden in 1995 to kill Egypt’s president by ramming his plane with his own in mid-air.

Ihab Mohammad Ali testified in the trial in New York of Khaled al-Fawwaz, who is accused of being one of al Qaida’s early leaders.