(UK) Shoe-bomber Saajid Badat describes meeting Osama bin Laden
Source: AP
A British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission has admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden in testimony recorded for a US terror trial.
Saajid Badat, 33, was interviewed by US prosecutors outside London last month in preparation for the trial of Adis Medunjanin, who is accused of the plot to attack New York's subways in 2009.
British authorities said this week that Badat would be first person convicted in the United Kingdom on terrorism charges to agree to give evidence at the trial of alleged terrorists.
Badat said that he refused a request to testify in person because he remains under indictment in Boston on charges alleging he conspired with shoe-bomber Richard Reid.
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