Trial witness tells of world of bin Laden

Monday, October 1, 2001

NEW YORK -- Recruited off the streets of New York in 1986, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl became a foot soldier for Osama bin Laden -- fighting in Afghanistan, training in Sudan and learning the inner workings of a terrorist network whose members signed on to a holy war against America.

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