Jurors completed their first full day of deliberations Sunday in the largest terrorism case in U.S. history. Deliberations in the case began late on Saturday, following four hours of jury instructions from Judge Michael Mukasey. The jury will resume deliberations on Wednesday. The trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others accused of plotting a war of urban terrorism has been more than two years in the making.
Defense attorneys expect the jury to deliberate for at least two weeks.
All 10 suspects face 28 charges of plotting assassinations and planning a series of attacks on New York landmarks. The government says the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, in which six people were killed, was part of that conspiracy. Four other men were convicted in March 1994 for carrying out that attack. They jurors have elected a foreman. For their protection, the jurors' names are being withheld from the public.