Defendant Nos. 24 and 29 told the special court trying them that the charges listed in their crime sheets were true. However, they denied that they had any links with Osama Bin Laden and that they knew each other.

On Monday the court conducted three separate hearings for the defendants belonging to the Turki Al-Dandani cell, Qatar cell and the Al-Barqi cell. The court also granted and referred a request by a defendant to undergo surgery at the Security Forces hospital in Riyadh to the concerned department. The court continued the previous day’s hearing in the case against the 41-member Qatar cell that plotted to carry out attacks on US military installations in Qatar. The cell included 38 Saudis, a Qatari, a Yemeni and an Afghani. It used Saudi territory to plot terrorist operations, the crime sheet against them said.  The lawyer representing Defendant No. 28 asked the court to supply him a copy of the crime sheet so that he could submit his reply in the next hearing.

Those who were present at the trial proceedings included the father and two brothers of Defendant No. 28 in addition to representatives of the media and Saudi human rights organizations.

During a trial involving seven alleged members of the Bariqi terror cell, the lawyer of Defendant Nos. 1, 4 and 5 informed the court of his inability to serve his clients.

The seven members were accused of setting up a terror cell to execute plots hatched by Al-Qaeda in addition to the charge that Defendant Nos. 1 and 3 offered training in explosives manufacturing. Four of the seven were present at the court. The lawyer of Defendant No. 3 submitted a 22-page statement.

Defendant No. 16 of the Dandani cell requested the court to appoint a lawyer to defend him. Members of his cell are accused of bombing three residential compounds in Riyadh in May 2003, which killed and injured 239 people. They also allegedly plotted to attack military bases and oil installations in the Kingdom.