Trial date set for RI detainee in U.S.

Trial date set for RI detainee in U.S.

JAKARTA: The trial of Agus Budiman, an Indonesian national
currently detained in the United States for his alleged terrorist
connections, will commence on March 2 at the federal court of
Alexandria, Virginia.

"Agus and his lawyer have received the court's schedule,"
Agus' younger brother Akhmad Faisal told Antara in New York on
Tuesday.

Agus was arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization
Service in Virginia on Oct. 30, 2001 for visa violations and
forged documents. Local prosecutors, however, altered the focus
of his charges to possible links to terrorism.

Agus, of Saudi Arabian descent, is believed to have helped
Mohammed bin Nasser Belfast obtain an identity card and a
driver's license.

Earlier, the U.S. media reported that Belfast was closely
related to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi Arabian billionaire said to
be behind the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon on Sept. 11 last year, in which over 3,000 people
perished. -- Antara