Terror suspects on Wednesday, the 6th day of their trial here in a special security court in connection with deadly attacks carried out in the Kingdom, were charged with various offenses. The prosecutor charged one of the suspects with attempting to recruit an Investigation Department agent for spying. Another one was charged with readying a room in a mosque to shelter a wanted man. One suspect was charged with misleading investigation bodies for five years by concealing information. Another one was charged with misleading investigators for six years and concealing the fact that he had connections to a number of leaders of a terrorist organization. The District Court that is trying 85 people accused of being involved in joining a terrorist cell that carried out a terrorist attack on three residential complexes in Riyadh held its sixth hearing for 18 suspects, all Saudis, on Wednesday. On Tuesday attorney general told the hearing that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, also plotted to attack Saudi Aramco. Mohammed and alleged co-conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh, currently on trial in the United States, had “planned an attack on Aramco” with one of the suspects on trial, the prosecutor said, during the hearing. The defendants face charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda, of taking part in attacks on public buildings and residential compounds, and of smuggling and possession of weapons, SPA reported last month. Thirteen of the group are accused of participating in the May 2003 car bombings of three residential compounds that left 129 people dead or wounded, including women and children, SPA said. Nine US nationals were among 35 of those killed. The arrests of the 85 suspects had foiled plots to attack two air bases, a residential compound in the Eastern Province and on Aramco. In April, a judicial source said a total of 5,080 terrorist suspects either faced trial or had already been tried by the special court. __
