Trial date for Triangle terror suspects delayed

RALEIGH -- A federal judge on Friday delayed the trial date for Triangle-based terror suspects to give lawyers more time to review the computer evidence, more than 750 hours of recordings and 30,000 pages of documents associated with the case.

Louise W. Flanagan, a federal district court judge overseeing the case, moved the trial date to Sept. 19, 2011, nearly a year later than a previous schedule.

Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, his sons, Dylan Boyd, 22, and Zakariya "Zak" Boyd, 20, and four other men – Hysen Sherifi, 24, Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 22, Ziyad Yaghi, 21, and Anes Subasic, 33 – were charged nearly a year ago with conspiring to provide support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim and injure people abroad.

An eighth suspect, Jude Kenan Mohammad, 20, is believed to be in Pakistan.

In her order on Friday, Flanagan also said that while the government did not plan to interview potential witnesses overseas, defense lawyers had not ruled out the potential need for travel abroad.

"It long has been evident that this complex multi-defendant case requires expenditures of more time and resources than is typical," Flanagan said in the order.