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12/11/12, "2 Ala. men arrested on federal terrorism charges," AP via USA Today
"Believing the FBI was on to their plans to wage jihad overseas and
hoping to divert agents, Abukhdair and Wilson used $3,900 from a vehicle
sale and more money from their father and stepfather to open a men's
fragrance store in March, but it went out of business by July, the
complaint said. The document didn't say where the store was located."...
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12/11/12, "Alabama men arrested on terrorism charges, accused of violent plot," Reuters
"Federal
authorities arrested two Alabama men on terrorism charges on Tuesday,
accusing them of plotting to wage violent jihad overseas after meeting
online in 2010.
Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair
and Randy Wilson, also known as Rasheed Wilson, were arrested in
separate locations in the state of Georgia, according to the FBI and
U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama.
Authorities
said Wilson was a friend and former roommate of Omar Shafik Hammami, an
American who was added to the FBI's Most Wanted list of terrorism
suspects last month. Hammami is suspected of being a senior leader in al
Shabaab, a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate, and is wanted on terrorism
charges in Alabama.
Wilson was
taken into custody in Atlanta as he attempted to board a flight headed
to Morocco on Tuesday, and Abukhdair was apprehended at an Augusta bus
terminal, authorities said.
According to the criminal complaint, Abukhdair had planned to fly to Morocco on Thursday.
The two men, both 25 and residents of Mobile,
face charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists,
allegations that stem from their plans to eventually travel to
Mauritania intending to prepare to wage violent jihad, authorities said.
Abukhdair is also charged with passport fraud.
The
men met online in 2010, the criminal complaint said. Abukhdair was one
of several people arrested in Egypt in 2010 on suspicion of terrorist
activities. He served two months in jail before being deported back to
the United States, authorities said.
A native of Syracuse, New York, he moved to Mobile in 2011 to live with Wilson and his family, authorities said.
In
August 2011, an undercover FBI agent met with Wilson, who shared a plot
that involved Abukhdair applying for a new passport by falsely claiming
his old one had been lost. The complaint alleges that Abukhdair was
concerned the Egyptian stamps on his passport would raise red flags with
authorities....
The undercover agent said he and the two men
watched videos of prison beheadings and mutilation of corpses of
children and soldiers. Wilson described the deaths of innocent people as
"collateral damage," the complaint said.
The
men ultimately decided traveling to Mauritania to carry out their plot
would be less risky and suspicious, the complaint said." via Atlas Shrugs
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