NEW YORK: There is more than enough proof that would allow a jury to decide to convict Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law of conspiring to kill Americans, a judge said Friday as he turned down a defense request to dismiss the case.

“The government’s evidence in (the count) of the conspiracy to murder Americans is dramatically more than merely sufficient,” US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said, adding that he also saw evidence as “more than sufficient to warrant a conviction” on other charges concerning providing material support to terrorists.

The verdict “is ultimately up to the jury, not me,” he noted. “But it is sufficient to permit the jury to convict on all counts.”