The trial of two Palestinians charged with plotting to place a bomb in a New York City subway station last July was delayed for one day when the two defendants got into a fight. Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar apparently struck Lafi Khalil as witnesses heard the two shouting at each other.
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