Charges against Bin Laden dropped
Published:Saturday | June 18, 2011 | 6:13 PM
The CNN is reporting that the United States has formally dropped criminal charges against former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. military raid in Pakistan last month.
The CNN says prosecutors disposed of a 1998 indictment in a Manhattan court yesterday.
Bin Laden had been charged with murder and conspiracy to kill Americans for his role in attacking U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998.
The indictment also alleged that bin Laden tried to attack U.S. defense assets.