LONDON — A British man went on trial Tuesday in London, accused of making a roadside bomb that killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq in 2007.
Prosecutors said Anis Abid Sardar, a 38-year-old British citizen, assembled bombs in Syria that were planted on the western outskirts of Baghdad that year.
One of the devices killed Sgt. 1st Class Randy Johnson of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, they said. Johnson, from Washington, D.C., died after his armored vehicle struck the bomb Sept. 27, 2007. Four other soldiers were injured.
“These were anti-personnel devices, large bombs made with the deliberate aim of causing maximum damage, injury and loss of life,” prosecutor Max Hill said.
Sardar was arrested last year after his fingerprints were found on bombs recovered in Iraq by U.S. forces and analyzed in an FBI lab in the U.S.
Sardar denies the charges of murder, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.
Police found a bomb-making manual in his London home, and Hill said Sardar’s fingerprints were found on two bombs recovered from the same area of Iraq, along with those of another man.