It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.

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Washington (CNN) -- Every few moments another plane seemed to be bearing down on the Pentagon on Friday, but they were only on their final approach to nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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Shabbar Rizvi, a lawyer who practises in the Supreme Court, says that, because Mr Sharif tried to divert the general's plane only after the army had moved in, the case is likely to have little bearing on the government's defence of the coup.

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