Prosecutors want a judge presiding over a terrorism trial to let them show jurors letters recovered in the raid that killed Osama bin laden to boost evidence against a man snatched off the streets of libya last year. In papers in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors asked US District Judge lewis A Kaplan to permit the “critically important evidence” against Abu Anas al-libi.
Al-libi was nabbed in Tripoli in October 2013 and brought to the United States to face trial in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people. He has pleaded not guilty in the attacks, which killed a dozen Americans.
The Government wants to show jurors six letters dated between June 2010 and April 2011 and recovered from bin laden’s Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound, where he was killed May 2, 2011, by a special operations team.