Suspect's warning exposes English skills (al Qaeda Financeer)

The Washington Times / AP ^

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NEW YORK (AP) — A Yemeni sheik accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist networks warned U.S. agents that "Allah will bring storms" to America because of his arrest, according to newly filed court papers. Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad made the remark last year after a German court ordered him extradited to the United States to face charges that he helped finance al Qaeda and Hamas, prosecutors said in the documents filed in U.S. District Court. The statement — spoken in English to agents bringing al-Moayad from Frankfurt, Germany, to New York on Nov. 16, 2003 — counter defense assertions that he has no command of the language, prosecutors said. "Allah is with me," he purportedly told a detective. "I am Mohammed al-Moayad. Allah will bring storms to Germany and America." Prosecutors previously said al-Moayad was overheard boasting about his relationship with Osama bin Laden, saying in Arabic that the terror mastermind "tells me that I'm his sheik." The defense said al-Moayad's statements during a sting operation at a hotel in Frankfurt were mistranslated from Arabic by FBI informant Mohamed Alanssi, who set himself on fire outside the White House last month. The new documents, filed late Friday, offer details of al-Moayad's conversations with an undercover FBI operative posing as an American Muslim eager to donate $2.5 million to terrorist causes.

[Poundstone]

What an idiot. Lock the mutt up and throw away the key.

[Beckwith]

Put this whackjob in the deepest, darkest hole in the country and serve him only Sausage McMuffin with Eggs, barbecue spare ribs, hame and cheese sandwiches, pulled pork and Coor's beer.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"tells me that I'm his sheik."

Perhaps lost in translation: OBL "tells me that I'm his BITCH"