Saturday, July 30, 2011

Motion Filed In Iraqi Case

  • {Kentucky}...In a motion filed Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael Bennett and Bryan Calhoun asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Russell to order defense attorneys for 30 year old Waad Ramadan Alwan and 23 year old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi to share evidence only with experts and other members of the defense team.  Defense attorneys for Alwan and Hammadi, two Iraqi nationals charged in Kentucky with trying to send weapons and money to al-Qaida operatives in their home country, did not object to the order. The two men, both of whom lived in Bowling Green, have pleaded not guilty to an alleged plot to send explosives, guns and missiles to Iraqi insurgents.