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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/04/top_al_qaeda_leader.php

“Top al Qaeda leader linked to 5 Americans on trial in Pakistan”
By BILL ROGGIO
April 17, 2010 4:42 PM

Pakistani prosecutors claim that five Americans currently on trial for attempting to join al Qaeda were in contact with a top leader of the terror group.

The five Americans are said to have made contact with Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the radical Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and the commander of al Qaeda’s Brigade 313. Prosecutors presented evidence, including phone calls, emails, and other documents that linked Akhtar and the five would-be terrorists, according to Dawn.

Akhtar recruited the five Americans after watching their videos posted on YouTube, according to Pakistani police officials. Akhtar was able to obtain emails through the YouTube postings and encouraged the men to travel to Pakistan to join the jihad.

The five American Muslim men were detained in the city of Sargodha in Punjab province in December 2009 after a family member discovered they were missing and contacted the FBI. The five Americans have been identified as Umar Farooq, Waqar Hussain, Rami Zamzam, Ahmad Abdullah Mini, and Amman Hassan Yammer.”

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http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-american-suspects-linked-to-militants-prosecutor-ss-09

“American suspects linked to militants: prosecutor”
Saturday, 17 Apr, 2010

ISLAMABAD:

SNIPPET: “’’They wanted him to say he was there for terrorist reasons,’’ Khalifa said in an interview with The Associated Press. She said she did not believe her son gave a confession, but that others did.

She said her son was in Pakistan to attend a wedding.”

OFF THREAD TOPIC, not related to this thread and IN THE U.S.A:

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367353/posts

I-Team: Terror-Related Arrest Began in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS NOW.com ^ | Updated: Oct 20, 2009 8:56 PM | Investigative Reporter Jonathan Humbert and Photojournalist Alex Brauer
Posted on October 21, 2009 4:29:27 AM PDT by Cindy

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http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_complaint.pdf http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_indict.pdf

LAS VEGAS, NV —

SNIPPET: “The real end, however, came in a Minnesota Federal Court. Two weeks ago, the FBI arrested Abdow Munye Abdow for two counts of making false statements to a federal official. The FBI believes Abdow lied about his trip to Las Vegas, and a passenger he was with who was on the terrorism watch list.

The Nevada Highway Patrol pulled over Abdow and four other people on October 6, 2009 for speeding. Trooper Alan Davidson, a spokesperson for NHP, said the officer on the scene began asking questions.”

SNIPPET: “Davidson says the men had $4,000 split between them and that they were headed to San Diego for a wedding. “They didn’t have any clothes for the wedding. They didn’t even know where they were staying,” Davidson said.

When pressed, the driver, Cabdulaahi Faarax, “said he was going to a wedding in San Diego, but he didn’t know who was getting wed,” Davidson said. “The driver’s story just didn’t add up.”

That driver, Faarax, was eventually run through the National Crime Information Center. Davidson says the name came back as positive on the “terrorism watch list.” When the name came up, NHP policy is to contact FBI, which the trooper on the scene did. Local FBI officials would not comment on the case, but indications are that the trooper was told to let the men leave.”

SNIPPET: “Media reports indicate the men may have been attempting to travel to Mexico through San Diego in order to fly to Somalia. There, a few of the men may have joined an Al-Qaida-connected terror resistance group.”

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