Lawyer: Terror-case client is 'terminally ill'

[hrmjustin]

LARRY NEUMEISTER

NEW YORK (AP) — The government is rushing to bring to trial a terminally ill Libyan man charged with a role in orchestrating al-Qaida's 1998 deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, his lawyer told a judge Thursday.

Attorney Bernard Kleinman filed papers in Manhattan federal court objecting to the government's handling of the case against Abu Anas al-Libi, who was snatched off the streets of Tripoli last October and brought to New York for trial.

His description of his client as "terminally ill" came amid ever worsening reports about the medical condition of al-Libi, though lawyers have only spoken in vague terms about it publicly. Many of the filings in the case are sealed.

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