05/01/2009
Three men charged in the deadly 2002 Djerba synagogue suicide bombing face trial Monday (January 5th) in a Paris anti-terror court, international press reported. Defendants Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam believed to have been an adviser to Osama bin Laden, and Tunisian Walid Nawar, the brother of the suicide bomber who drove a fuel truck into the Tunisian synagogue, will be present in court. Fourteen German tourists, five Tunisians and two French nationals died in the April 11, 2002 attack. The third defendant, Pakistani Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in absentia, as he is being held in Guantanamo as one of the planners of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. The trial is expected to continue for five weeks.