Judge Leonard Sand ruled Thursday that Mamdouh Mahmud Salim will not join his four co-defendants in the bombing trial scheduled to begin January 3.

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Sand of the U.S. court for the Southern District of New York had scheduled a trial vacation in mid-August, but he recently told jurors their jobs should be over by then.

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