A London jury is considering its verdict in the trial of relatives of a British would-be suicide bomber. The widow, brother and sister of Omar Sharif, who attempted to blow himself up at Mike’s Bar in Tel Aviv in April 2003, deny charges that they had information about a pending terrorist act but failed to disclosed it, or that they incited an act of terrorism.
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