COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: This is an important day in the U.S. government's trial of the four suspects in the embassy bombings in Africa. And CNN's Deborah Feyerick is in New York right now to tell us why -- Deborah.</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Colleen, today is cross-examination day. The government's first witness, who was a confidential informant, he's really helped prosecutors kind of get an inside look of Osama bin Laden's alleged terrorist organization. The witness is a man by the name of Jamal Al Fadel (ph). He is currently in the government's Federal Witness Protection Program, so any pictures of him have to have his face shielded. Last week, he described bin Laden's organization as run very much like a company. Bin Laden is the emir or CEO. He's got his trusted aides, and then he's got a series of different committees, including a military committee. Now, according to the witness, people involved in the military committee were charged with transporting explosives, but also buying weapons like Kalashnikov rifles. The witness himself testified that he negotiated to buy uranium, a key component in building nuclear weapons. Now, of the four men who are on trial for the U.S. embassy bombings, which happened two years ago and claimed the lives of 12 Americans, as well as 200 Kenyans and Tanzanians, only one of the men on trial was actually identified by the witness as being a co-worker, somebody who he knew and recognized from bin Laden's Sudan headquarters. And during cross-examination today, defense attorneys, as is their job, will try to discredit the witness. They will try to distance him from bin Laden, and they will basically have a little help from bin Laden himself, who last week issued a statement saying, well, he had no personal relationship with this government witness. We are live in New York, Deborah Feyerick, CNN. Back to you.</s>CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you very much, Deborah.
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