prosthetic
hands. He was dressed in dark prison garb. His gray hair and gray beard were well trimmed. After the judge read him his rights and briefly outlined the charges he was facing, his lawyer requested his prosthetics to be returned immediately. She also requested a full medical evaluation saying he suffers from type two diabetes and high blood pressure. Two men also extradited with him in connection with the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania appeared separately in the same court and both pleaded not guilty to 287 charges. Abu Hamza will be formally charged and will enter a plea on Tuesday.
French police have shot and fatally wounded a man during an anti-terrorism raid in the city of Trans… Strasbourg. A prosecutor named the dead man as a drug trafficker who
converted
to radical Islam. From Paris here's Christian Fraser.
The early morning raid in Strasbourg was part of a nationwide operation to
round up
a suspected network of Muslim extremists. The man shot at police as they stormed his home, and was killed when the officers returned fire. Three police officers were also hit but the bullet-proof vest they were wearing appeared to save them from many serious injuries. There were simultaneous operations mounted at [the Niscan] and Paris where another armed and potentially-dangerous suspect was arrested.
Israel has shot down an unmanned aircraft attended to its airspace from the Mediterranean. The drone hadn't been carrying any explosives and was destroyed over a largely uninhabited area. But correspondents say Israel is taking the incident seriously.