Four Kenyans went on trial for the November 2002 terrorist attacks on Israeli targets in Mombasa. Prosecutors said Monday that the defendants orchestrated the suicide bombing of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel, which killed 15 people, three of them Israelis, and attempted to shoot down an Israeli passenger plane, on orders of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, an Al-Qaida mastermind who remains at large.
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