In conspiracy trial, dark tale emerges of jihad training

The Seattle Times ^ | April 29, 2009 | Mike Carter

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NEW YORK — Speaking publicly for the first time, former Seattle resident James Ujaama testified Tuesday about his efforts in 1999 to create a terrorist training camp in rural Oregon for would-be jihad warriors wishing to take up the fight against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.

Among the instructors would be Oussama Kassir, a Swedish jihadist who once bragged he had been a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

Ujaama, appearing thin and graying and dressed in oversized prison overalls, took the witness stand in the terrorism conspiracy trial of Kassir, who is accused of traveling from London to the barren ranch in Bly, Ore., to help set up the training camp.

Ujaama is a key prosecution witness in Kassir's federal trial, having already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. He told the U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan that he hopes to get a "significant reduction" in his sentence in exchange for his testimony against Kassir. He faces up to 30 years.

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Still, he said, nearly a dozen people were there — most young, black Muslims — and Kassir told them that if they didn't want to be involved, now was the time to get up and leave.
"Nobody walked out," Bishop said.
At another meeting at the mosque — after Kassir had shown them how to field-strip an AK-47 automatic rifle — Bishop said the topic of suicide bombers came up. Kassir "said suicide operations are acceptable."
"He said human bones are the best shrapnel," Bishop said.

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