NEW YORK (AP) - A June trial has been scheduled for a British man accused of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
The June 1 date was chosen Monday for Haroon Aswat.
Aswat pleaded not guilty to four terrorism charges after his extradition from Great Britain earlier this year.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest set the trial date at a brief hearing as Aswat sat quietly with his lawyers.
If convicted, he faces up to 35 years in prison.
Aswat is charged with conspiring with a radical cleric to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, 15 years ago. He was arrested in 2005 in Zambia.
His lawyer says Aswat takes anti-psychotic and antidepressant drugs daily. He has been treated for paranoid schizophrenia.
In 2009 a jury convicted a man accused of helping al-Qaida by trying to set up a weapons-training post near Bly, Ore.
A weapons training post at the ranch was just part of Oussama Kassir's scheme to recruit terror cell members, a prosecutor told a jury Monday in closing arguments.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Bruce told jurors in Manhattan that Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, conspired to support al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden by trying to set up the training camp in Bly, Ore., in 1999 and 2000 and by trying to enlist recruits for years afterward on the Internet.
