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CAIRO - Al Jazeera English journalists, imprisoned now for over three months by Egyptian authorities, once again had their day in court. In the fourth session yeezy of their trial correspondent Peter Greste, Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and producer Baher Mohammed pleaded with the judge to release them on bail. Their request was denied. In the Egyptian legal system defendants appear in court inside a cage. But today Judge Mohammed Nagi Shehata, in a hi salomon xt ghly unusual move, allowed the accused out from behind the bars to stand before his bench and directly address the court. The idea that I could have an association with the Muslim Brotherhood is frankly preposterous, said Greste. He told the judge, Our only desire at this point is to continue to fight and clear our names from outside of prison. Journalists on trial in Egypt call charges outrageous and evidence flimsy 01:11 Fahmy mounted an impassioned defense on behalf hoka schuhe of himself and his colleagues, defending their work as journalists. Greste spoke of his decades-long career as an award-winning foreign correspondent. Mohammed talked of his children and his pregnant wife, and how much he would like to be present for the birth of his next child. With such direct and emotional testimony from the defendants - a rarity in an Egyptian trial - Frqh PETA releases video of angora rabbit investigation in China
As U.S. troops and armor continued their offensive against Iraqi fighters north of Baghdad, the U.S. military announced Monday that ambushers fired rocket-propelled grenades at separate U.S. military convoys a day earlier, wounding at least four Americans.In the first attack, a grenade hit a civilian Iraqi bus that was passing a 4th Infantry Division conv