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Stabbed NY CO observes appeals arguments

CO was stabbed in the eye by a former Osama bin Laden aide

The Associated Press via The Wall Street Journal

NEW YORK — A federal prison guard stabbed in the eye by a former Osama bin Laden aide has returned to a New York court, hoping once again to see his attacker.

The guard, Louis Pepe, arrived in a wheelchair Tuesday to watch oral arguments by lawyers before a federal appeals court.

The government says Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was not required to attend his August 2010 sentencing hearing where he was ordered to serve life in prison.

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